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Celebrate - Approaching Cocos Keeling



Well the blessing and offerings made in Bali are still working! The wind is blowing at 18 knots from the right direction. At our current speed we should be approaching the atoll just after dawn tomorrow. We are heading for the Southern group of islands and plan to anchor within the lagoon in the lee of Direction Island. Cocos is an Australian Dependant Territory, the inhabitants are a mixture of Australian and Malay origin, the former living on West Island and the latter on Home Island nearby our anchorage. All the islands are a ferry ride apart and with a lagoon full of shallow spots,once anchored we will not be moving for a week.

Flying fish are continuing to throw themselves at us: Charlie picked up twelve on this morning's walk/ rig check. No luck with fishing yet but the line snapped taking the lure so there is something out there! Cathy also saw some beautiful phosphorescence on her night watch.

Thanks to Charlie it was game time on the morning and evening radio logs with boats invited to make up a story featuring as many boat names as possible. There were some great entries including a rhyme from Polaris, one from Lucy and another from the rest of the team on Folie a Deux, also Merlyn of Poole rewrote Harry Potter. All the stories can be found on the boat logs and story time on the net will run on for a while.

Charlie, Cathy and Peter

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