Course: 357*T
Speed: 4.7knots
We upped anchor and left Roti Island around 8am this morning just managing to avoid the shallow coral heads that cover the anchorage. Our destination is the town of Lembata on Kawula island which is in the main chain of islands just east of Flores. We've been able to sail most of the day with wind out of the South East around 15 to 20 knots but now it's completely died off and we're having to run the engine. S/v Helen Kate, Silene, Nabob, Street Legal and Galliano are all sailing along with us and amazingly we are holding the front of the pack. We scraped Blue Moon's hull yesterday taking off about 2 inches of weed all over so we're guessing it's helping us to go faster. We had our first whale sighting in Indonesia today as we passed a huge pod of what looked like large Pilot whales, really beautiful. Jimmy has been great and has made my birthday underway really enjoyable by putting up balloons all over the boat and baking chocolate brownies. It's amazing to think that this time last year we were on our way from Bora Bora to Suwarrow in the Cook Islands....luckily the conditions are much nicer this year!!
Last night we heard from our friends on 'Nabob' who got an SMS message from their family in Sweden that there was a large earthquake on the island of Sumbawa which is just East of Flores island and very close to here.... we were extremely worried about after shocks and the chance of a tsunami but luckily we felt nothing....scary feeling being so isolated. We plan to visit the island on our way through and hope there wasn't too much damage done.
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