Sunday 24th May 2015
2 degrees 17.469N
127 degrees 46.565E
10.9 metres depth
Pulau Doi
Indonesia
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| Evening view from Doi Island |
After an overnight
sail, with each of us doing 6 hour shifts, we arrived this morning in a
beautiful tranquil anchorage. (I did midday-6pm,
midnight-6am so I saw the sun set, and rise.
Very nice it was, too.)
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| Pulau Doi |
with a lovely reef
and many MANY fish.
We had visitors,
who sat silently and happily on the deck, drinking iced tea. I took a few photos and printed them off on
my little Selphy and they were wreathed in smiles. And then we encouraged them, gently, to go
home…we were VERY tired…
(Yes I know it was
only one over-nighter…Some of our friends are about to embark on a FORTY
day/night trip across the ocean. But I
assume that as the days go by one gets used to this rhythm of sleeping and waking
in shifts. One night…I didn’t really
sleep at all, was too busy anticipating my wake-up call at midnight!)
Monday 25th May
2 degrees 03.027N
128 degrees
16.424E
Doruba, Pulau
Morotai
7.5m
We are now
anchored near a little town on Pulau Morotai.
It has a nice sturdy tower and – internet!
2XS is creeping
ever closer to the Equator and…it is very very hot…
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| Dodola Br |
We stopped for a
while this morning next to a beautiful little island which my Navionics chart
calls “Dodola Br” – not quite sure what this means but…it was pretty! I of curse spent about twenty two seconds
deciding whether or not to go for a swim RIGHT NOW. The water was clear and warm; it was just
glorious except…not. Nearly all of the
coral was dead. A barren landscape…a few little colonies of coral here and
there, a few game little fish trying to live a cheery life in what remained of
what must once have been a most fabulous reef.
Sigh…
2 degrees 05.967N
128 degrees 11.333E
Dodola Br –swim and lunch stop
10m
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| Doruba |
Our present anchorage
is very serene and secure. The water is
lovely, clean, clear, turquoise…I went for a beautiful swim and – oh deary me…even
deader than Dodola Br. WHAT has happened
here?? Dynamite fishing? A very savage storm? A nuclear explosion? The fish at Pulai Doi should be very grateful
indeed that they have such a lovely reef, full of LIVE coral, in which to live.
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