[p]wallace
[s]=20
pos: 19 57.318s 158 28.287e
w: Southerly 21 knots, sunshine with 30% cloud cover, 1014mb
d: 10/10/16 12:03 GMT+1100
We arrived in Chesterfield Reef this morning after a fast (for us!) and often slightly lumpy 4 day passage from Luganville. There was a slight sting in the tail after we hove-to just outside the reef in about 10 knots for a couple of hours to wait for the light. At 8.00am, after a brief rain squall, the wind came in at a steady 22-24 knots from the south; David at Gulf Harbour said that a 'surprise' low had popped up out of the trough just south of New Cal. Anyway, that made for a very wet beat down into the southern tip of the lagoon, which was far from calm, and we are now anchored in brilliant turquoise water just 5m deep (how weird is that in the middle of the ocean?) at the very southern tip. There's still a half metre wind chop but it's not bothering us, we'll sleep through anything. All is very well aboard.[END]