Day 4

We left Dunedin late Wed evening and have had light wind sailing/motoring ever since. Currently we are in position 48 48.7' S 179 55.6'E (Sat 30/11/19)about to pass into the western hemisphere. Jim pointed out that by the time I send this email it will be Friday again! On our watch last night we could see the Bounty Islands on radar. Had a lovely sunset yesterday evening with a mixed pod of Dusky and Southern Right Whale dolphins, only the second time we have seen the latter dolphins.
We are heading SE at present with the intention of sitting below 50 south and hopefully find some stronger (but not too strong) winds. Currently the distance to Cape Town is still increasing each day. Once we reach 162 west at which point we will be 180 longitude from Cape Town.
The current intention, and all rights of changing mind are reserved, is to stop off at Stanley in the Falkland Islands after rounding the Horn.

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Departure

So all going well we expect to depart Dunedin this evening for Cape Town. You can track where we are on marinetraffic.com. We will be the purple icon heading east from Dunedin.

Dunedin

Stage I of our trip away finds us in Dunedin getting the boat ready to head offshore. Feeling a little like I'd rather be kayaking after a great show weekend trip (thanks Kelly for organizing). Although it is the first Murchison weekend I've been on that included the lower Kakapotahi!! Thanks also to the crew that took me down the Glenroy and also the highest Lowers run I've done, well until the next morning when it was higher again!

Will post again when we've done something more interesting than fixing and cleaning stuff, although I am enjoying doing the Ross Creek Reservoir etc runs again.

Away for a while

We are going on a friend's expedition boat to South Africa. Will try and update the blog as we go.