The wind is still howling (25-30knots) and the seas leave us rocking at the mooring. We saw a few of the yacht in the lagoon leave and watched them disappear in the rough seas outside the lagoon. White caps and foam are still blowing across the lagoon but we are afforded some protection.
We spent the morning doing some school work and playing a board game as a family.
When it was low tide in the afternoon, the waves dropped slightly and we headed back over to the little bay we had discovered on the first day for some more snorkeling. Daddy brought his go-pro this time. We all dived in an watched the beautiful fish swimming along the edge of the coral drop-off. Nicholas and Jasmine were becoming experts and started to build up the courage to dive down under the surface to see certain fish and corals at close hand. The battery on the Go-pro, despite being charged fully before leaving Sydney, was very quickly flat. Immediately after it was put back into the tender, the turtles were spotted.
We saw 4 turtles that afternoon and also a school of cuttlefish.
Everyone was tired and cold from the wind as we motored back at the end of the day in the rough wet conditions. We arrived to the yacht to find that Daddy's life jacket, which was in the tender when we went snorkeling, had blow overboard and was missing. Daddy went back to the reef and found it sitting on the top of the exposed corals. We clipped all the lifejackets onto the back of the yacht so they wouldn't blow out over night.
It was again a windy night with an uncomfortable roll when the tide rose during the night. The yacht did a strong see-saw swigging on the anchor; but the anchor didn't drag. Daddy got up, as he did the night before, a couple of times to check references and bearings to ensure there was no drag that would risk the yacht ending up on the nearby reef.