Friday, September 24, 2004
Hamish posting for himself from an Internat Cafe in Koror - Palau.
We got in through the channel in the outer reef just in time to have enough light to follow the markers to the harbour - another 12 miles from the reef channel. Tied up to main wharf as directed and were visited by Immigration, customs, port police, quarantine and sanitation departments - it was 11pm by the time the last left. But all very efficient and much less expensive than a few years ago. They let us keep our Philipine fruit & veg but took our frozen Australian meat into secure storage - to be collected as we leave. Steaks are treated like firearms here.
This morning we left the wharf to make room for the Palau Navy and have moved to mooring amoung other yachts tucked in close under steep jungle clad limestne islands 100m from the Royal Belau Yacht Club and Sam's Dive shop. Been made very welcome there so we are all set for a few days diving and R&R while we wait for the spare autopilot.
Weather today is overcast and windy as typhoon Maeri moves away NW towards Okinawa - now with 105kt winds. We enjoyed just enough of its effect yesterday afternoon to have a storming sail for the last 70 miles.
Log shows we covered almost exactly 1000 miles from Puerto Galera to Palau in just over 7 days.
While here I will try to find a way to upload some pictures to the site.
We got in through the channel in the outer reef just in time to have enough light to follow the markers to the harbour - another 12 miles from the reef channel. Tied up to main wharf as directed and were visited by Immigration, customs, port police, quarantine and sanitation departments - it was 11pm by the time the last left. But all very efficient and much less expensive than a few years ago. They let us keep our Philipine fruit & veg but took our frozen Australian meat into secure storage - to be collected as we leave. Steaks are treated like firearms here.
This morning we left the wharf to make room for the Palau Navy and have moved to mooring amoung other yachts tucked in close under steep jungle clad limestne islands 100m from the Royal Belau Yacht Club and Sam's Dive shop. Been made very welcome there so we are all set for a few days diving and R&R while we wait for the spare autopilot.
Weather today is overcast and windy as typhoon Maeri moves away NW towards Okinawa - now with 105kt winds. We enjoyed just enough of its effect yesterday afternoon to have a storming sail for the last 70 miles.
Log shows we covered almost exactly 1000 miles from Puerto Galera to Palau in just over 7 days.
While here I will try to find a way to upload some pictures to the site.
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