Wednesday 19th

Another day of rain, the island has now provided rain for the last 25 days in a row
(Well it is the wet season).
As such today, Nathan decided he would stay at home while Zach and myself went exploring.
We went out to Tai-Jin (the Island governors home for 90+ years) and while we were there, a local who undertakes engineering works, was fishing and we got talking. He told us about the Navy mooring points further round the coast.

So we  got into our car and followed him round to the mooring points. The waves were so huge that it's hard to believe that in the dry season, the navy pulls up here and refuels all their ships, rather than returning to Darwin or Perth.
The guy we were talking to had put in the land based anchors for the deep water mooring point and he showed us, how during the dry season, they paddle out of the cove past Tai-Jin house, past the mooring buoys, to some caves. It seems that you can paddle into the caves from the sea and then go swimming inside them, he said it is amazing, I guess its just another reason we need to come back.

On the way back, we had to stop at the only traffic lights on the island, the road out to Tai-Jin house is a single lane road, blasted into the cliff after the war (along with sections that are cement infills about 50 feet high)

Finally after all this Zach went and joined in with the Lego building competition.