Up at 6:30am to watch the sunrise, another thing that would have been nicer to share with someone prettier :-)

6knt of wind from the southeast, one other boat here - Chiquita with Ding and Doris, they had taken to long way and got to Minerva only about 3 hours ahead of us despite their great show of speed leaving Bay of Islands.

When the tide went out we went for a snorkel, the scenery was amazing, coral, bright coloured fishes amazing clear water, more fish, my feet. a white tipped reef shark and his mate, the don't bite apparently (yeah right) but they just glided around us being very inquisitive.