I had set an alarm the previous night as we had all decided to get on the move at a decent time today, however as usual when on holiday I woke up early (probably due to the shock of actually seeing sunshine streaming through the hatch!), anyhow we hopped up, cleaned things away and promptly dropped the mooring ball before motoring out into the open sea. Without a confirmed plan we were going to wait on the wind direction as to whether we turned left or right, a left turn would take us to Mill Arm but as it turned out we turned right and decided to go back to our spot at Whareata Bay. The journey north was horrendous again with big rollers of 2-3 beam on lurching the boat all over the show and once again making Emma very ill, the rounding of the top of D’Urville between Stephens Island was also pretty bad with 4+m waves and an incredibly confused sea state with currents and seas meeting up to make bizarre calm spots and massive breaking waves, I was incredibly happy to see that behind us and as we got further away the sea became a flat calm with a nice 10-15kn beam reach all the way to the mooring.
Once we arrived we had some lunch and played a bit of Rummikub before Dad got back into his fishing and managed to get another couple of decent Blue Cod for dinner. Emma relaxed and I pulled my spare octi apart to find out why it was passing air yesterday (turn
s out it’s a lot like servicing a ballcock!). Soon after I was running around getting all of our gear ready for a dive. We suited up, jumped in the water and threw our BC’s on and descended down the mooring rope to the muddy bottom below. I do have to note its pretty disgusting how many wine bottles are below the mooring ball, shame on you club members! Anyhow we made our way out into the bay down to about 17m then ended up heading around into the bay collecting scallops on the way and chasing a small carpet shark along the way. Emma’s dive computer decided it didn’t want to talk to the tank receiver anymore so she didn’t know how much air she had left so it was time to ascend and head for the boat. All in all a good dive and managed to get a good few dozen scallops to accompany dinner tonight. After a good shower, and in the middle of rummikub another yacht showed up and rafted up, after all that we headed back below for dinner, drinks and more games. 
After our movie (21 and Over) we got invited over for a couple of drinks to the boat next door. They had come from Seaview and where on a bit of a shakedown to see if they could work as a crew for a Pacific Trip in a couple years. So after a drink and a chat about some of the things we had done on Dulcinea we retired to bed.
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