After leaving North Minerva Reef, we stopped briefly at South Minerva Reef. It was near the end of the day so we anchored outside the reef and only Gary swam over to the reef to check it out. He tried spear fishing, but there wasn't as much sea life in the section that we anchored off compared to North Minerva Reef. We spent about 2 hours there then headed out to sail to New Zealand a mere 850 miles away.
We are currently exactly half way between Tonga and New Zealand, 530 miles from the closest inhabited land. We have been sailing for 2 days now and making great progress. We have maintained an average speed of 7 knots, unfortunately that is not supposed to last. In a day we are expected to encounter a high that will have very little wind, so we may have to motor. Nonetheless, we hope to arrive in New Zealand in 4 days.
We have been eating like royalty this passage, with all the fish and lobster we caught in Minerva, plus we have had fresh banana bread, wheat bread and homemade chicken soup.
Fair sailing,
Julie
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