Our plan today was to head to one of the other anchorages and we did . but we didnt end up at the one we planned!! The anchorage we had planned to visit has recently had some mooring buoys put down to help protect the coral but unfortunately we couldnt find them!! So we decided to head back through the reef pass and go to a beach anchorage we had heard about. We got through the pass safely and headed to the beach. As we got closer it looked spectacular but we couldnt find the way in!! The book said to head to the south of the beach and then come up into the anchorage but there was coral everywhere and the depth got down to less than a metre under the keel!! We decided to give this a miss and head to the Art Gallery anchorage as they had buoys they said we could use for free as we had bought something for the gallery and swapped them some rope. Jonny was happier with this suggestion as the anchor windlas chain stripper had bent again and he wanted to fix it so it would be easier not to anchor.
After lunch Jonny managed to get the stripper off the windlas but it looks like it is bent beyond repair this time so we have taken it off and are hoping to be able to use the windlas without it until Australia where we can get a new one.
We headed over to the Art Gallery to say hello and ask advice about the beach anchorage and we know have the correct way to get in hopefully for tomorrow!!
The nice sunny day turned into a rainy day mid afternoon so we hid below and had a dvd afternoon afternoon which was lovely.
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