We had dropped the hook are eastern side of Rendezvous Bay, in the Dittlif Bay.

The fascinating colors of the water in the bay vary from a darker blue to light turquoise depending on the depth and and what is on the seabed. Something, which can be looked at again and again.

With the still slanting sunlight of the morning, a squall which came by and dumped a lot of rain, changed the sea appearance in his own way. The heavy raindrops, hitting the sea surface, let smaller seawater droplets jump up and creating in the same moment tiny little centric wavelets around the point where the raindrop hit the surface. This creates a very interesting, kind of mystic looking sea surface, which I liked already when we got the first squalls being still far out in the wide Atlantic Ocean. After a few minutes the mystic surface was gone.

Some things were to be done on the boat and thereafter, one of the friends – the others is more a bookworm than a water lover – and I took fins, masks and snorkels and swam towards the beach in NE direction. On the way I had a quick look at the anchor; it is perfectly deeply digged into the sand.

When we reached the shallow water closer to the beach, we saw that they are covered with corals. Plenty of very colorful small fishes, typically living between and with corals were to be seen. We enjoyed this scenery and followed the lines of rocks and corals until the system end of Klein Bay. From there, we headed back to MaRe and got a nice surprise about 25 m before we reached our boat.

At about 5 m depth, a big sea turtle was just feeding on seagrass being not disturbed by us floating about 5 m above.

Next, the skipper needed to do some laundry and enjoyed being able to use the washing machine and the generator and plenty of water made by the on-board Dessalator water marker. The same time we got hot water and charged the batteries a bit.

Charging batteries is more of less done by the SuperWind wind converter all day long and during sunlight hours via MaRe’s solar panels. The trade winds give a nice average charge.

The day ended with freshly baked bread from whole grain wheat for next day’s breakfast. Bonne appetite!