Lord Howe to Nomea (7th May)

As you probably figured from the last post we enjoyed Lord Howe so have included a few shots from our adventures there.


The Goat House (Lord Howe)

Extreme Walk to the Goat House

Island Trader - Lord Howe

We decided to depart from Lord Howe on the 1st May as the weather forecast for the passage looked good.  We have been lucky to be receiving forecasts from Roger (Clouds) Badham through Oscar and Graciela on Zenitude and also our own Clouds McDermott who has been doing an awesome job for us!

Zenitude also left with us so it was nice to travel with some company and we arranged a regular sched with them and also Ocean Star who took a slightly different track to us and is heading out to spend a few days at Middleton Reef before heading back to the coast.

As with the rest of our trip to date the wind seems to have been behind us all the time which makes for a great crossing but we can't believe that the wind could be coming from directly behind for such a long time.

The passage across was very uneventful but we have had lovely sunny and warm conditions for most of the time apart from the last day when we struck plenty of rain. 

On Day 4 of the crossing we decided to put out the lines and managed to hook a couple of fish.  The first one was a small Indo Pacific Sailfish which Mark hooked but it managed to shake itself free before Mark could get it on-board which was a good thing as we were planning to send it back to the deep anyhow.  The second fish was not so lucky and our resident fisherman (Roger) managed to catch a lovely Mahi Mahi which we devoured on our first evening in at Port Moselle after sharing a beer or two with Oscar and Graciela.

The Mahi Mahi - Good eating and very pretty as well!

After around 700NM and 5 days at sea it was amazing that Zenitude only arrived around 2 hours before us and even more amazing is that Roger's friend Johnny, who is delivering a Big Cat out here, only turned up just before us as well and is parked right next door to us..

Arriving at Port Moselle

We have managed to do all the official stuff now and have been imported into New Caledonia.  So far not much else has happened although we have had a wander around the street and marche where we managed to buy some pretty nice French produce so think we are going to enjoy the eating here.


We are planning to head off to La Bout De Monde for drinks and a steak dinner!!!