We started the day with another healthy pancake session delivered by the one and only Victoria using her secret recipe! After breakfast we attached the outboard to the newly cleaned and re-enforced dingy and Richard took it for a quick speed test… It flew like I had never seen it before, nicely planning across the water. Ready for action!
We wanted to take the dingy out today and go hunting for fish and afterwards go to the shipwreck to snorkel around there, but unfortunately we had to turn back as we were not sure what the weather was doing. It looked like a storm was coming our way, so we returned back to boat. We grabbed the surfboards instead and decided to do a bit of wake-boarding :)
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Chilled out was the motto for most of the day as we encountered some rain and a bit of thunder nearby, but it didn’t last long until we were back in the water again. The locals came by again in their boat and delivered us two huge crabs that we cooked, striped its meat and put it in a nice white wine and cream pasta sauce along with some left-over grilled barracuda from the night before. Another amazingly delicious dinner served with white wine to celebrate a hard days work.
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In the early evening, we picked up anchor and plotted a course for Gannirguinnitdup Island in the West Cocos. We decided to go there as a change of scenery, but also to get a bit closer to the island town of Nargana where we had to fill up on Gasoline for 5.75 USD per US Gallon. It was a nice anchorage on the south side of the island with some nice reefs and a few rays swimming around. We snorkelled to the island to unfortunately find quite a bit of rubbish lying around and two very authentic looking huts where we met a small girl who was the only one there at the time and didn’t seem to speak much Spanish, or perhaps didn’t understand us. I don’t think they have many visitors there as she seemed quite surprised to see us. We carried on walking around the island to find yet more rubbish and then snorkelled back to the boat, checking out the reefs and fish along the way. Tomorrow morning we will cruise to Nargana which is about five nautical miles away to stock up on fuel.
