Rainy Day

Had great sailing all day yesterday and through the night. Wind picked up just enough yesterday morning and slowly went around to the north by the afternoon until we were on a perfect beam reach. We then swapped the spinnaker pole over to the port side and put in a 3rd reef ready for what the forecast may bring later today and tomorrow, easier to do it then when it's calm and not raining and we are in no rush anyway. The wind lasted until 6am this morning and then it was like we entered a big wall of rain and the wind direction went all over the place and died so we just started the engine and have been carrying on west and sailing for bits in between. The rain is just consistent heavy drizzle, sky's completely grey, the forecast says the wind will swing around 180 degrees by this afternoon bringing strong southerlies into tomorrow so with the 3rd reef we will be cruising very comfortably heading in the right direction for Bundaberg and it looks like the wind will then stay in SE for the rest of our journey so it should be very nice
Still haven't seen a single ship since leaving NZ, very quiet out here but the little swallow bird keeps dropping in to say saying hello, not shy at all

Noon Pos 29*54s 165*18e 776nm to Bundaberg Monday 11/5/20