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Celebrate - Heading for Durban



Our stay at Richards Bay has been great with a first class welcome from the Zululand Yacht Club . Len one of their Rear Commodores and Joel from World Cruising Club have worked their socks off to help the fleet in at all times day and night, added to this the presentation of a bottle of local bubbly and a club burgee made it one of the best landfalls on the trip. Just before getting in we also got a welcoming committee from a hump back whale who breached about a mile away from us followed by two babies.

The Zululand Yacht Club has lots of character (a proper Yacht Club) and just the place to conclude a bumpy passage. All the fleet have now arrived and are making a start of repairs and plans to explore. We have also met lots of characters over a drink (or two)in the bar and at the Braai (BBQ in English)Liz the club secretary originally from Ireland was a treasure particularly when she with Derry and Margaret from Avocet our very own Irish ambassadors were singing Irish anthems to celebrate their victory over South Africa in the rugby.

In our short stay we have also seen some of the wildlife; yesterday a WARC tour took us to Hulhluwe Game Reserve . We saw many elephants, at one point we counted a herd of 17,white rhinos, giraffes, zebras, buffalo,warthogs, and lesser known Nyala (like an antelope).The lions and leopards did not want to come out to see us so sadly we cannot claim the big five yet (lion, leopard,buffalo,rhino and elephant)

So thank you Joel , Len and Zululand Yacht Club for the great welcome and first taste of South Africa!

We are now (Wednesday) on passage to Durban 80 miles down the coast en route to Cape Town. Another whale came out to keep us company, this time a little closer. Our early departure makes best use of a favorable weather window before another low pressure system blows through. This trip will be a day sail and once there we will wait for the next period of favorable weather.

Charlie, Cathy and Peter


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