On the way to Pitcairn

The Easter Island was an easter surprise itself. Colourful, beautiful, peacful, interesting. My uncle asked me what wildlife they have there. Well, I said, horses and cows. Cows mostly behind the fence, horses live wild and free -in the fields and on the streets. Ok, there is only one really good paved street across the island, then another one which is paved half the way, the rest is dirt streets. So how should the horses know? They live with the most wonderful ocean view, as you might have seen in some of my pictures. Another surprise: I had the best and most fresh ice cream on this whole trip so far. So good that I went back to that place 4 times! ONce we're in Mangareeva I will be able to upload more pictures of Easter Island. Til then, you have to live with my text writing....

We left Easter Island yesteday morning and already travelled 200nm, 1/4 of the trip to the Island called "Lucie", one of three belonging to Pitcairn Islands. We don't know if we will be able to stop at one of these islands as we need calm weather and no swell from the south in order to be able to enter the atoll. If we can't enter there we'll try the main island, Adamstown, 200nm further west. In the worst case we have to sail right by the Pitcairn islands and again 280nm straight on to Mangareeva in French Polynesia, where our island hopping of this year starts. The relaxing part of the trip after the long way across the Pacific Ocean. Mangareeva is supposed to be very beautiful, check it out on Google Earth!

So far we are travelling good, with about 140nm per day, sometimes more, sometimes less wind. The huge southerly swell of up to 5m, that we had yesterday, has gone down to 2-3m, so more bearable. Weather is good, mostly cloudy and a lot colder than expected, which I do not mind at all.

I will write again as soon as we have news. Current position: 26degresse 19'S and 112degrees 54'W.

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