We moved anchorage to a spot behind Murray Island, which took some wriggling around bommies to get into (and was thus pretty peaceful and deserted. We explored some of the reef towards the northern edge of the group but didn’t find much interesting.

As the weather improved, we decided to go and look at Gun Island. This was used by the survivors of the wreck of the Zeewyk in 1727 for 10 months before they built a ship to sail to Batavia (Jakarta). Later it was mined for guano, which has left a small pier (just rock rubble now).

As we were getting into the dinghy, we had a visit by the local dolphins who swam past closely.

We had a nice walk around the island, though there’s not much to see. On our return to the dinghy, there was a sealion inspecting it. He was very inquisitive and wanted to play. We got lots of video with him, in the water with him showing off. (We’re assuming it was male!).

Play time over, we headed back to the boat and Nina spotted a squid by the anchor chain. A few seconds later, it was in a bucket and turned into lunch!

The wind has started to ease, so we flew the drone to get a couple of photos of our ‘secret’ anchorage, and back towards Gun Island.

Tomorrow we’ll head to the Easter Group...