What a difference a day makes

The Duke glassed off overnight. What a relief to be perfectly still after 12 days in THAT PEN!!

All the farmers antics from Australia Day were not to be repeated on the Monday holiday. It stayed like this ALL DAY.

Mt Belches, well maybe.

Anchor inspection was hardly a problem. The Bloke paddled us around for the assessment. We gave ourselves and Urchin 10/10 for having the flukes properly buried in sand. Easy Tiger only had one fluke dug in. a points deduction that encouraged them to try again in calm conditions. They couldn't nail the sand and eventually picked it up by hand and dropped it onto a sand patch and then reversed engines on FULL. Yank! Job done!

A passing professional fisherman reckons that if we've found the sand we'll have trouble getting the anchors up..... we don't have a problem with that! Sounds like a good night's sleep to us!

We have added an iPad App to our anchoring armory. It's just called ANCHOR. It's not particularly elegant in design (we have a professional view of this of course) but it does allow the iPad to keep a GPS fix on the notional anchor location and you can set your own perimeter. It sounds a klaxon alarm if the perimeter is breached.  It works very well and only cost us $1,000.99.  $1,000 for the new iPad air which has GPS in it and 0.99c for the App! Esperance businesses turnover is about to tank now that we've left.