This will be my first blog entry and it seems already difficult to find the right starting point since the previous blogs activities lasted till yesterday morning 7.30am: this is how long it took as to secure the boat in Telefon bay using the anchor and ropes reaching from the boat to the shoreline attaching them to rocks where we could find them.

After that was accomplished our routine of alternating watches we had followed for the past week while on open seas changed for the first time and we all went to sleep at the same time. We also all woke up pretty much at the same time and had an afternoon breakfast together. The plan for the day – and the following – would be to pretty much wait until a forecasted spell of bad weather with strong winds would have passed. So for the remaining afternoon we were sitting around the table, looking at our computers, downloading movies and pictures recorded in the previous days and reading. After dinner Magnus suggested it might be nice to go for an evening stroll to get outside at least once that day. Chris and I were less convinced almost ready to go back to bed again – but a quick look on deck suggested a different activity altogether: Katabatic winds pushed the boat from pretty much the only direction we did not have a rope extended to the shoreline. That meant that we would have to get out an additional rope to shore, and that we would also have to disconnect all other ropes again, lift the anchor, reposition the boat, and then start yesterdays procedure of attaching ropes to the shore all over again. Luckily by now I had some idea what was going to happen and could be more helpful with rope activities. Once all was done and the boat seems to be secure we skipped the walk and went to sleep right away – which didn't last very long: At around 3.30 I got a wake up from Chris I hadn't recognized anything, but winds had become much stronger overnight and when we got on deck we discovered that the second anchor that we had buried at the beach and attached with a rope to the boat had loosened and now was somewhere underwater. We decided to try to bring out yet another line to shore. Operating the zodiac in the gusting winds wasn't easy but, eventually, we had yet another line at shore keeping the boat in place for the rest of the night.