Benny & The Jets ~ 2 day passage Tonga - Minerva Reef
Balvenie
Mark Farrell & Amanda Church
Thu 10 Nov 2016 23:51
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23 37.165s 178 54.301w
This morning at 0630 we arrived at what must be the
most amazing anchorage in the world. We have come about 270 miles SSW from
the bottom of the Tongan chain and are anchored in 13 metres of depth in the
South West Pacific Ocean.
North Minerva Reef has no land (rumour has it there
is a tiny sandy knoll that pops up at low tide), just a circular coral reef with
a west facing entrance, it is very weird dropping anchor in here when all you
can see is ocean.
We had a good sail, we were one of about 14 that
left Tongatapu, so far we have 11 arrived here this morning, we have quite a
flotilla.
Our big excitment yesterday morning was seeing two
jet streams, we have been wondering when we would start seeing signs of
civilisation again ~ the last jetstreams we remember seeing were when we
sailed away from Panama, at that was 17 months ago. Of course the other
big news was the US election result, well who'd of thought, Donald Trump is
going to have sole control of the little red button, maybe we should stay at sea
for another few years and ride this out!!
We will update again once we move on, about to look
at the weather forecast now, just heard some radio discussion of maybe leaving
this afternoon - WHAT!!!!!!!
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