In the morning the sea was littered with whitecaps, and I decided to take it slow and rather enjoy a good breakfast in the sheltered caravan. I didn’t feel like plugging again into 25kn headwinds…

But after a good feed of eggs on toast, pancakes, fruit and yoghurt I noticed the wind had eased a little, enough to make me feel guilty not to go and at least give it a try for a while with again an empty boat on an easy sheltered coastline…

But that day felt like stronger wind compared to yesterday, and I had a hard time to stay over 5km/ hr. But by myself and with a loaded boat I may have not gone out at all! The plan was to make it at least around Green Head, which was supposed to be a bit ugly with the reef break coming close to the cliffs.

But about 8 km short of Green Head I saw Tim and Levi on the beach, and was happy to call it a day at 4pm with 30 km. It was better than “no” progress! Not much fun paddling that day! It was just an ugly slog.

I quickly changed and we drove out to Point Louise before the actual Green Head and had a look on that notorious point. It was low tide, but there was still a gap of more or less unbroken water between the cliffs and the surf zone. I could pass through close to the cliffs without having to go out into the seemingly endless breakers zone. Thank goodness! It would be high tide tomorrow morning, and the reef platform may be even covered with water and the gap even wider. So no worries on that point…

Text message from Freya vi satellite phone:

30.00 114.57, before Green Head.  10:00 am to 4:00 pm,  30km. I’m sick of 25 to 20 knot headwinds again all day after a rough night…really draining, even on flat water. But nice coastline!