We had a mixed night of sleep due to a swell starting in the bay that seemed to come through in patches.
We headed ashore early to go for a walk on the headland with Christine Anne and Sunchaser and to go across to the bay where we could swim with baby seals. The walk was lovely and we managed to swim with seals with frigate birds also circling overhead as a fishing boat had dropped some parrot fish carcass in the water that they were all eating.
On the way back to town we stopped at the Interpretation Centre to read about the islands history and the problems facing the islands.
In town we collected the laundry, had coffee and cake and bought a birthday present for Alice (Vagabond Heart).
After lunch Jonny and Russ worked on our water pump whilst Brenda, Chris and I dropped the passports off so we could clear out and did some shopping.
At 5pm we got some water delivered ($2 for 20 litres) in the water cooler bottles and then headed over to Vagabond Heart for Alices birthday party (she is 11 on the 26th but as we will be at sea she is celebrating early). We had a great night with Jonny and Jim (Balu) playing their guitars.
There was still swell with bad patches coming through every now and again. When we went to bed we left 15 bottles of water around the deck. At 3am a bad patch of swell came through and there was a huge crash as the water bottles starting falling into the water!! We lost 4 over the side but managed to rescue 2 from the boarding ladder and got the rest into the cockpit.
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