Captain's Log
V02/25, Eden to Melbourne
19 January 2025

Day 5 – Deal Island!

This is Sam and Iaroslav coming live from Deal Island, today was a jam-packed day filled with lots of fun and laughs.

Day 5 started off with some freshly baked croissants and the sight of land for the first time in 3 days! Not long after wakey wakey we set anchor In East Cove, Deal Island and prepared to head ashore!

Once on the island after a short but fun boat ride we got ready for a 3km hike up to the Lighthouse. Despite some very sore legs, a few strong youthies (Including Iaroslav), ran the whole track! We achieved the hike and saw what a great view and lighthouse Deal Island had to offer.

After getting to know some of our other ship mates on the walk down for our three way chats we were all ready for an ocean swim. The swim started out with ball games, snorkelling and a swimming race between Sam and Crash – and of course Sam won in record time.

After a joyful swim and heaps of laughs we walked over to the other end of the beach to hear an inspirational talk by Samual and his journey of how he built a boat out of fish farming scraps. He is now sailing it around the country educating young people about the dangers of marine waste.

It’s not a day unless the Queenslanders have something to say about the weather… Today all of the cold Queenslanders ran across the beach to get back onto the ship for a warm shower : which might have been more than 90 seconds (sorry Dan!!)

By the time everyone was on board, and the Queenslanders were warm, the Staffies had prepared an amazing feast for all the hungry youthies. After eating a true Aussie meal; sausage sizzle, burgers, and salads all the youthies came together for a short dance party on the top deck where we brought out the true Aussie moves with the nut bush, macarena, YMCA, Gangnam style and hot to go. Tonight white watch made a very brave move to announce “we are white watch and we are the dirtiest nastiest double duffers” to the rest of the crew as they gracefully munched on their second duff of the evening.

Today was filled with highlights including seeing many wallabies on the island, playing charades, and having the spew meter at an all time low of ZERO!

Now as we finish writing this we are beginning our watch rotations and settling in for a much-needed night at anchor after a few rough nights a sea. Time to get the 2B pencils out and do the Navigation Challenge!

Sam and Iaroslav Out!

 

Latitude/Longitude:

39 28.3S / 147 18.6E

Conditions:

Weather: Sunny Wind: 15KN ENE Temp: 22C