Bam, splash, congratulations..!I know you can turn my life onboard upside down, but could you calm down a little? WHAM!… No go! The waves have grown from annoying to ultra annoying. They are taller and because the sea is very shallow it makes for a very choppy and short swell. Guppy repeatedly surfs down a wave and as soon as she gets to the bottom a side wave comes in to engulf the entire boat all the way up to half mast! Of course the cockpit gets a whole load of water too so I have to keep the entrance to the cabin closed which makes it stuffy and hot inside! But even as the water is running off Guppy from all sides she is still going at a good 7 knots. Remarkably the water looks quite strange today because of an odd brown substance floating on top of it… Fields of it which I guess would be sand or mud. Could that be sand coming from Australia? In any case this is as clean a sailing I can make of it without trying to go around which would be more than a little tricky… I still have 280 nautical miles left to go to Darwin, and so it will be another mega milestone on my journey which is still hard for me to believe… I was always so much focused on going across the Pacific Ocean, and now it is already behind me. Wow…

Laura