9/18/2015 Friday
We had a tsunami warning yesterday. This was connected with the big earthquake in Chile. Very sad. For us it was, in the end, a non-event. I say, in the end, because when we found out about it, it was supposed to hit us with a 1 mt wave in 25 minutes. There wasn't time to check it out with another source and still get out boats out to deep water. We were mooring in a fairly shallow creek but the bay outside had about 150 feet of water. So five of us dropped our mooring and got to deep water only to find out that, had we time, we would have found that the time was UTC or Zulu meaning the arrival was actually 12 hours later or 1:38am, not 1:38 pm today.
So we looked a little foolish, but better safe that sorry. As it turned out parts of the Marquesas' got a 4 foot wave, not pleasant but manageable if you're off any dock. We in Fiji didn't even notice it. I heard that New Zealand got a bit of a bump in places. The adventure continues.