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We are heading off 71 degrees south for a couple of weeks so there will be no NtMs for two weeks. Next weeks Notices are quite light: some reduced depths on the west side of the Goodwin Knoll but outside of the Gull Stream buoyage and Walcheren coast, a number of buoys have been temporarily lifted in the Deurloo Channel. On local notices, on 12th the final pipeline snake in the Stour will be moved between 01:40 hrs and 05:30 hrs. Perhaps it will happen! Havengore Bridge is back into commission and the Bradwell Power Station works talked about in week 1 will now start this week.
 
I'm trying to work out if you mean 71 south from here, or at 71 degrees south. As far as I can see, in the first case you will be eating either llamas, gnu or wallabies, and in the second case, penguins. Bon appetite.
 
O Level Sums test 71 degrees south - 51 degrees minus 71 = 20 degrees south - it says so on the Tee shirt. You will be pleased to know that the passage planning - planned in May - coincided with Cyclone Gelena but it fortunately slid off to the north-east. As the plane passed at dawn, the wake of the cyclone was to port - remarkably close. The cloud tops were higher than the plane which was then at 35000 ft. Surprisingly no turbulence. Weather on arrival not surprisingly changeable. The local craft exited at lunch-time from the bolthole to head to the moorings the north but suddenly in a moment a top of a 5, bottom of a 6 from the north started. Dropped in time for the sundowners though. Sundowners successfully negotiated. Plan achieved!
 
I did assume that you wouldn't omit a capital S, but the downside is that it looks as if you'll have to put up with chilled beer. I dare say that there will be compensations.
 
There is a compensation apparently. Apparently they have some residue product left over once they have made sugar from the cane. It's a white liquid which makes you fall over quite quickly. Someone did tell me what it was called but it was a guy called Ron who was trying to tell me about it. I'll make sense of it one day... if I bother. Hey ho. It's low water at the moment. My feet are dry.
 
Aye. T'was exactly. I can report that the residue of the cyclone has now passed. We have an azure sky, with 35 degrees and a middling Force 4 offshore. There are several tones of turquoise from the lagoon, the reef, post reef and then the Indian Ocean. Currently suffering a surplus of lobster et du vin. Please don't concern yourself; the concern of East Coast formuites is of course legendary but I will cope.

Oh two serious NtM - the stick which comprised the lateral mark of the lagoon entrance est disparu et the isolated rock fender aussi est disparu. Franglais est necessary la. I have learnt Croele today - Vin fin = my glass of wine is empty, please fill it up again, thank you.
 
tillergirl said:
Aye. T'was exactly. I can report that the residue of the cyclone has now passed. We have an azure sky, with 35 degrees and a middling Force 4 offshore. There are several tones of turquoise from the lagoon, the reef, post reef and then the Indian Ocean.
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Zut alors & all that. My procession round 21S on Google Earth was too fast to pick up little bits of rock like Mauritius.. May your glass remain half-full or more.
 
Glayva said:
Matthew Flinders, the other great cartographer spent six unhappy years on Mauritius as I understand as a guest of the French.
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It's me who's mixing it with local Sheilas right now in a city where almost everything seems to carry the name Flinders. Particularly irritating as my last boss at work before I retired was called Flinders and I keep getting reminders.
A very long way from the dear old East Coast and a long way from TG's sundowners.
 
While talking about local Sheilas quite possibly places you in Australia trying to pick a city without everything named after Flinders becomes harder. I would tend to go for Adelaide but would like to hedge my bets on Melbourne.

I used to participate in a Matthews Flinders race in a more northern city which rounded a buoy (called the Matthew Flinders) somewhere in the Pacific then returned. Trying to use a spinnaker at night in an ocean swell I find particularly hard and we usually had to keep it up for two nights either going or returning so very hard work in my opinion.
 
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