The crescent moon was also bright in the early light of Sunday, November 20. All the dots of light are boats in the anchorage. It was packed.
Sunrise
In the morning, Eric tried to fill another tank. It seemed a belt was slipping, so completely filling tanks still wasn’t viable.
Some boats close to the shore left, so we moved Kosmos closer to the shore for less fetch. Even though it was quite windy out, it was calm in our new spot.
Continue readingOn Friday, November 18, the crescent moon was still shining brightly even as the day dawned.
Oceananigans in the glow of sunrise
Eric was eager to refill the tanks and dive again, so he spent some time in the early morning working on the dive compressor. He took apart the part he believed to be broken to the best of his ability to see if it could be easily fixed, lubricated it and put it back together. Still not working. He gave it Mike on Oceananigans, who also took it apart to look at it. It sounds like Mike didn’t do anything much different than Eric did, but after he returned the part, the compressor was kind of working. However, there seems to be an issue with another part.
The wind died in the morning, and the tiny flies came out to the boat. The tiny flies didn’t bite, but they were super annoying as they tended to gravitate towards the eyes, ears and nose. We got Kosmos ready to go to sea and pulled up anchor at 10:45.
Continue readingFish activity around Kosmos the morning of Thursday, November 17
Eric had made plans to go diving along the big rock island with some of the Oceananigans crew. Diving the rock was even better than snorkeling it was. They saw an eel that was so big that it could be mistaken for a sea monster. The head was as big as a man’s torso.
Continue readingThe moon was still high in the sky and vibrant at the first light of dawn on Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Sunrise was dramatic
Continue readingSunrise on Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Eric did not sleep well from all the rolling in the anchorage. First thing in the morning, he deployed a flopper stopper. It helped some, but it was still uncomfortable. The water was too shallow to put out the paravane, so later in the day, he fixed the broken flopper stopper. The flopper stopper had metal clips and it was the clips that had broken. He just tied knots in the line and deployed it. Much to his pleasure, it worked! Having the second flopper stopper helped even more, but there was still a lot of movement.
Our friends on Oceananigans arrived in late morning. With all the rocking, we were desperate to get to day land. Shortly after they arrived, we went to shore with them to do the hike up the ravine.
This was the view from the top of the peak seen in the above photo.
