24th April 2008

Got up early (7) and had a nice breakfast before leaping into the icy depths to snorkel. Me and Joff swam all over the shop, saw some cool coreal and fish. Sailed a bit more, though not much wind to push us along. Went to whitehaven beach, and did 20/30 min hike barefoot through a forest to viewpoint above the beaches, very awesome, perfectly white beaches and all that. Charged back down to the actual beach, played hacky sack with Joff and Steve, then paddled before heading back to boat (and forgetting hacky sack...). Nice lunch made by Sam.

Went to another spot, HUGE wrasse by boat, Joff stroked it. Also saw the paw/foot/flipper of a huge turtle before it swam off at high speed. In the evening we rafted up with the Broom Stick and Eureka II. After intial inspecting of boats, only Joff, Fritz and I really intermingled, even after the boastful predictions of the Dartford lads. Met a nice london family (proving once more that everyone comes from North London) and chatted to 2 italien girls and a spanish girl for ages. They were most impressed I'd noticed they were from Italy and not Spain. I wasn't. I over heard them saying it to someone else...

Somehow all our beer got finished and we suspect the captains stole it. Probably for the best, we called it a night and when we clambered back to our boat, we found everyone else asleep.