[password]waiknot
[position]22 28.559S 166 27.904E

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At Amedee. Beautiful sunny day yesterday, saw a couple of dolphins on the way from Kouare. Stopped for a snorkel at Tabu Reef. Very large fish here - some spotted coral grouper well over 1m long, large unicorn fish, huge parrot fish and blue wrasse, sweetlips, thicklips, blue tangs, a long sea snake and just too many more to mention. A fabulous spot! We have snorkelled in many places and have seen the most wonderful things, but this reef still got us very excited! We picked up a mooring at Amedee about lunch time and enjoyed people watching. Two ferry loads of day trippers on shore. Karl had to resuce a couple of novice paddle boarders who got pushed too far out by the wind and had no way of getting back to shore! It was a beautiful starry night last night, punctuated by the sweep of the powerful beam from Amedee lighthouse and backed by the glow of lights from Noumea city. We will head in to Noumea today.

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12 knots NE, 5pct cloud, 1015 baro
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