Well it's been a great couple of days waiting for the weather to change. We had dinner the other night over on Mantra. Helen cooked us a beautiful prawn pasta with flans for desert, Spectacular! Then we hosted on Sunflower last night, I cooked a vege Sri Lankan curry, Julie made a beetroot curry and a dhal with papadums and Helen made some fresh pita breads and it all went down with bottles of champagne, white and red wine! Doing it tough once again on the high seas!
We also moved yesterday to Casuarina island just 3 miles south and it's a lot better. We were rolling like mad at the other island as the swell seems to wrap around and hit you side on but it's fine here. Luckily Julie can speak Portuguese and we met some fishermen here and they are very happy bunch, not the cannibals we thought after all! Nope they eat turtles here but not too many we think as there seems to be a lot around that we have seen. Anyway we gave them a few old shirts and they were very appreciative and even offered us a turtle! We declined there offer, Julie saying she likes to see them swimming and they looked at her like she was mad!
Then this morning I downloaded a very promising forecast for favourable winds for at least the next 5 days, looking better to leave tomorrow but I think we will make a head start this afternoon to get as far south as we can while the weather is good, may be a couple of days of motoring but should still be enough wind to sail most of the time after tomorrow we are hoping, as long as it's not strong southerlies like it has been we are happy!
Julie has just baked me a very nice looking cake and we will go over the Mantra after to cut it and blow out the candles, great birthday:)
Maybe the next time around we can stop and have a proper look up the African coast, I think it would be amazing.
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