Sunday 18 September Port Sandwich, Malekula isand

There was extra crew aboard today. Nine year old Bear (full name Robert) from Oso Blanco came with us to experience making passage under sail. It wasn't the easiest day for your first sail; 18 knots from behind and short 2m seas pushing us along. He did very well and is looking forward to doing more sailing – we obviously didn't make it scary enough for him.
On the way we had the fishing lines out and landed a yellow fin tuna which was perfect for a sushi dinner that night on board Oso Blanco.
Port Stanley is a long sheltered river estuary; not a hint of a roll all the time we were there. In our brief stay we had time to take our dinghies up a tributary river to explore. Not much found but when we reached a weir we left the boats and walked for a mile along a road that must have gone to somewhere and come from somewhere.

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