First thing in the morning Jackie, the commodore of the yacht club took Mike and Dave of Chao Lay, and Lars and I to check out of immigration and customs. Jackie’s assistance made an otherwise bothersome chore quite quick and easy. Afterwards, Captain and I went to the Elephant restaurant and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast off the boat, and out of the weather. We discussed options for heading to Cape Town; deciding to straight shoot it in one hop if possible. Came back, spent the afternoon readying the boat for offshore, then had a lovely supper at the yacht club with crews from Chao Lay, Nilja, Christine, and Nimbus. Even Eric, our favourite taxi driver showed up! Zululand has been a lovely place to get work done on the boat, use as a base for land travel, and hang out with other cruisers. We will miss this place...all EXCEPT the monkeys! These vervet monkeys are bold little brats who have zero compunctions about boarding your vessel and helping themselves to anything not put away. After we found their grimy little foot prints in our cockpit we started keeping the drop boards in the hatch opening to deter them.
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