The wind was still blowing hard this morning and it was still raining, but forecast to fine up this afternoon and the wind is expected to abate.
We are still getting used to the strange wind pattern up here at the moment where strong winds are almost always in the mornings, easing in the afternoon. First job this morning was to pump all of the rainwater out of the dinghy. It was about 100mm deep.
Around lunchtime the wind started dropping and by 2pm it was almost non existent, so we decided to go ashore. Rod came with us, as Lee was happy to relax on Cooinda.
We motored in to a beach where there is a narrow neck that allows you to walk to the other side of the island through a mangrove flat. The walkway has been marked by previous explorers using all types of blue coloured flotsam, hung from the vegetation. Old bottles, rope, thongs , buckets and anything else that could be found and is blue in colour has been used.
The walk only took around 30 minutes and the beach we emerged at on the Southern side of Shaw Island, was rugged and rocky, suggesting the sea can get pretty angry at times from the South.
When we walked back, the tide had gone out a long way and we had to carry the dinghy a good 100m to get to water deep enough to float in, and then about another 50m of rowing before it was deep enough to use the outboard.
We had drinks on Cooinda at around 5.30pm and returned to our boat to ready ourselves for departure tomorrow, get the dinghy on board, and cook chicken satays on the BBQ for dinner.
When we went to bed it was dead calm, but as regular as clockwork, at midnight in came the southerly blowing around 20-25 knots. Nevertheless we slept well.
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