Sea Monster - In Cocos Keeling

Hello from Cocos Keeling! I can’t believe we are in the middle of the Indian Ocean at this beautiful atoll. To get here from Lombok was 5 days / 4 nights to Christmas Island, then 4 days / 3 nights to Cocos Keeling. The sailing has been challenging and I will share more about thay later. For now, it’s hard to imagine the colours you can see in the photos where yellow turns to green which turns to blue and in real life there is no distinction between them - it’s like looking at the full colour spectrum from yellow to blue! Arriving at the Direction Island anchorage, we were met by black tipped reef sharks, who seemed super friendly until we fed them leftover wahoo!

Today we are having the skipper’s briefing regarding the next leg to Mauritius, which should take 15 days. We are over at the adjacent Home Island, (which is inhabited, unlike Direction Island), and when we got off the ferry there was a scrum for the fresh produce at the island’s small supermarket, which was flown in yesterday.

We have <48h left in this little piece of paradise: time to clean the boat and check the rigging, and make a few meals for passage.