[password]brucelaura
[position] 34 11S 18 26E
[status] Friday November 22, 0600
We arrived in SimonsTown yesterday afternoon at 4:00 after an easy 36 hour
passage from Mossel Bay. We had a nice sail up False Bay on a clear, sunny
day. It usually blows 30 in this area and gusts to fifty are not uncommon
so we must have had the best day of the year with a gentle 11 knots of wind
and flat seas. There are Cape fur seals swimming and waving at us
everywhere we look. Tomorrow we meet with friends and will take a walk to
the penguin beach. Today we will check into the marina and look for a
laundry service to tackle our mountain of long John's, sweaters,
sweatpants, and long sleeved shirts. We both had 3-5 layers of clothing on
under our foul weather gear in order to keep warm offshore.
The town is small and this side of the cape is mostly uninhabited windswept
mountains (no trees!). So there will be lots to explore. We expect to be
here until after New Year's when we will start the 6000 mile trip up the
Atlantic. But first some much needed R&R from the rigors of working our way
across the Indian Ocean. We are now officially in the Atlantic.!

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