Got up a couple of times in the night to see where we were, we have been using the radar to keep an eye on any traffic and then just getting up to check the GPS and plotter to make sure we haven't turned around and are now heading back to NZ.
At 10am we were about 28 miles or 4 hours from South Minerva Reef, this is the smaller of the two reefs in this group and doesn't show up on Google earth.
We had done a calculation and worked out we could see about 4 miles from the deck of E'eva we heard waves crashing onto Minerva a long time before we could see anything.
It was fantastic watching rolling 3 meter swells rises up and smash on the reef.
The reef comes up like the rim of a volcano from water about 9000 meters deep.
It is about 6 mile long and 3 wide shaped a bit like a figure 8. it is 15 meters deep and the water is amazingly clear.
At high tide the swell comes across the reef a little but at low tide the only disturbance you get is wind ripples.
Our trip from NZ was about 900 nautical miles and we had to gibe 4 times and tack 3 times, the rest of the time.... reading, eating and sleeping

we had the raw fish with coconut cream, onion, peppers, tomatoes and sweat chilly sauce for lunch.... yuuuummmmmm