[password]Kiapa52
[position]33 00.660S 175 32.274E
[speed]6.0k
[heading]28t
[status]What a fabulous start to our passage. Blue skies, mountains off to port, and while still in the Bay of Islands we landed our first fish - a nice size bonito, but oops, being 'fussy' fish eaters we decided to release it. And just as well, 'cause WHAM, an hour later, a monster strike. This time a big big-eye tuna! Light and variable wind conditions continued, but with delicious homemade fruit cake (thanks Doreen), visiting albatross', noise-cancelling earphones to make listening to the iPod even more enjoyable, yummily cooked on the bbq (I kid you not) tuna steaks for dinner, followed by an entertaining game of DOH Cranium (thanks Maunie), who can complain?? We've seen quite a few AIS targets, all enormous commercial cargo carriers, so it pays to be vigilent.
[weather]5 kn variable . Swell 0.5m . 55% blue sky.
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