We had beautiful weather and the seas and wind had fallen from the previous day. We again started early with Nicholas and Jasmine again still in bed. We upped anchor, finding a large clay lump on the end, and headed to South Percy Island. The journey was largely uneventful although we did see numerious schools of tuna and attempted to catch one, unsuccessfully, with our lure.
When we arrived off the North Eastern end of South Percy Island, we were protected from the South East waves and Southerly winds and we anchored in 8m of water. Daddy, Nicholas and Jasmine used the 30min of remaining light to quickly go ashore and explore the beach. There were amazing polished black stones on the white sand, which had fallen from the rocks at the end of the beach where there was a cliff face. Jasmine decided to keep a few of the smaller ones to remember the trip by. We walked along the beach and had a quick dip. The beach was covered in pumic and Nicholas used the time to skip stones across the water. It was getting dark so Jasmine took command of the tender and motored everyone back to Morning Light. Good one Jasmine!
Dinner and bed.... well not quite. By about 10pm the seas had increased in size and taken a more Easterly heading. The yacht was rolling again badly and it was impossible to sleep. At midnight Daddy and Mummy decided to up anchor and head to Mackay. The anchor was caught around rocks underwater, but after 10min of effort raising and lowering, raising and lowering, raising and lowering we were able to raise the anchor and head off to Mackay. A long night ahead!