Saturday 9 May 2020

Norfolk Island

Going good today, motored though most of last night but then the wind came in this morning nicely and we have been heading west. Passed about 80 miles south of Norfolk Island and it's a real shame we couldn't stop in to check it out.
The sky's are grey today with a big swell coming in from the north, looks like we will get a lot of rain the next days but it's all good.
Sunflower is sailing really well considering we have 2 reefs and a reefed Genoa, we do have a favouring current though. We don't want to go too fast as we want to arrive in Bundaberg not until Monday the 18th. Check in for Australia is already $600+ and if we arrive on the weekend you can probably double that for overtime! No hurry anyway , part of the condition of entry with all this Covid 19 is we have to quarantine for 14 days. When we left the rules were that the quarantine starts from the hour we leave NZ so arriving on the 18th will be 12 days at sea and then we can do formalities and go to anchor for 2 more days quarantine before being set free into the world, well Bundaberg and that could be dangerous!!
Hopefully these rules don't change before we get there.
Not a lot more going on, lots of reading, eating, spilt half a litre of dirty engine oil all over the cockpit, couple of little birds flying in and out of the cabin and a big Albatross has been checking us out from time to time, the days are rolling on nicely but still not BBQ weather

Pos 30*19s 167*27 Days run 133nm, 889nm to Bundaberg
38 hours on engine since leaving

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