Today was a particularly exciting day.....We left Elizabeth Bay at 11:00am and headed out through the Malay Road pass in the The English Company Islands where we joined the convoy of 9 other boats including 'This Way up' all flying their spinnakers coming from Gove. We've been hearing about the 'Gugari Rip', known locally as 'The Hole in the wall', from our friend Jasper on board 'Antares' for as long as we can remember so that's where we were headed! The Hole in the wall is a very long narrow cut between two islands in the wessel group which is lined with large rock faces almost like a natural canal. One mistake in there and you end up plastered against the wall so we had to time our arrival perfectly with the slack high tide so we had either no current or just a little going with us. Of course as usual our timing was off and the first boats through were getting four knots of current against them at 4pm. We decided to hang around and wait a little longer but with a congestion building up we were almost pushed through by the crowd. Luckily all went well and it was a lot of fun even though we were almost run over in the process! We had about two knots of current against us and probably should have waited another hour.
Now we are anchored in Guruliya Bay on Raragala island and getting ready to head over for a celebratory BBQ on the catamaran s/v Makali Kai with all the great fish that everyone caught along the way today.
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