A stormy and rushed exit from Sayang was what we had recently. We'd motersailed over from Wayag only 2 days before and panned to stay in our swimming pool like anchorage for a week but the weather blew in exactly from the wrong angle so we hoisted the sails and retreated back to the safety of Wayag. We did enjoy those 2 days in Sayang though, amazing beaches, crystal clear water of the most amazing color and lots of fish. This season we have really missed interaction with locals and other cruisers so it was really cool to sail together with Chris and Viviane from Ilya.
Seeya next time.

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Good morning everyone hope you're all

doing well out there. Marie and I, she's

up there, are doing very well.

After about 10 days in Wayag we

decided we needed a change of view and it

was getting a little hot there to be

honest, no breeze in Wayag, too many

mountains around so we moved over to a

place called sayang which is not very

far away. It was an easy little half-day

Cruise. What a beautiful

place it is, I mean look at the colors

behind me. You can see Schiehallion out

there and behind there is a boat called

Ilya. They're friends of ours Chris and

Vivian they built their boat in New

Zealand and had two kids on her and are a real cool couple. I got to know

them last year and I've spent a bit of

time with them and so yeah it was good

to have some contact with other humans. As you will notice if you've watched my

past video is a big part of what I enjoy

making videos about are people that I meet

along the way.

Normally local people on small islands

or whatever it might be but um you know

during this period now of covid and all

this unrest in the world we don't

actually get to meet people anymore

because everyone's suspicious and afraid

and no one's allowed to really deal with

each other and so it's sort of a big

part of the the cruising aspect that's

been taken away momentarily. I hope it's

going to return soon. T^he videos about

villages and people I meet along the

way will have to wait a little while.

Just unfortunate how it is I miss it

greatly and miss showing you guys at

home these different cultures and

mentalities and the way people live in

that on these small places but I'm sure

it'll return to some sort of normality

soon. In the meantime we'll just try and

show you some of the beautiful places

we're going

Its pretty sad, we get used to see all this plastic and it's really like

not a lot here, we are pretty happy when

you find a beach like this.

Here we can see the tracks of the

turtles, I think there are two turtle nests here. There's a turtle

nest that's been raided by lizards I

think, here you can see a bunch of

eggshells and things around

There's a little fishing camp pretty

good spot, they obviously just come come

through here and do fishing or

harvesting turtle eggs maybe and

coconuts probably as well and stay for a

few weeks.

Set up camp and then move on. There's a

few of these around the island I think.

I looked through the binoculars

yesterday when arrived and you could

sort of see a few of them along the edge

of the island sort of nomadic families I

guess they do the rounds pretty cool

life.

try the well see the waters any

good

How is the water?

-Its nice and cold

Its fresh!

Ilya, Schiehallion, over. This is Ilya.

Good morning, beautiful weather. Ya super!

Doesn't really look like its going to get much better in the next few hours.

looks like the front is getting wider, over.

Yeah I think its going to take a while till it blows over.

yeah that's what I thought, also because of all the fishermen in here, that normally means they are meaning to stay for a while so maybe its going to be shit for a while.

Yeah I think, fisherman in Asia, it normally says something.

Yeah, maybe better to get going now, get into deep water, otherwise the waves get big here.

Yeah exactly, I'm gonna start

packing up, we have to put the dinghy away etc but I'll need around half an hour

and maybe get going after that.

Ok, alright, we'll get ready to get going too.

Ok cool, seeya.

So what happened was, about 10 o'clock

last night we were over at Ilya having

some dinner and beers and the wind

started picking up from the southeast

which unfortunately in Sayang where

we were, that's the only open direction

you know its sheltered from the

north the west and the south.

So it started pulling through and it kept

blowing all night and so it's getting a

bit choppy in there and woke up this

morning and just the whole sky was black.

So we decided to leave just because we

didn't want to get stuck in there if it

would just get worse and worse, sooner or

later the waves get so big you can't get

out the chanal went amongst the bommies,

but now it sort of looks more sunny and

better but you know it's 16 18 knots and

we're just cruising back to Wayag

Ilya's in front of us. Just a bit of a

safety call to leave but we'll go back

there and film a little bit more we left

before we could film everything we

wanted and do everything we wanted but

safety first you don't get caught in a

trap.

well we're nearly back to Wayag as

you can see two reefs in the main and

the jibs reefed quite a lo.t We're on 30

degrees the winds they were sort of on

the limit but I think we'll just get in,

the wind slowly shifting around but yeah

good to have a strong wind sail again.

First time this season and a bit of

trouble putting the reefs in because I

hadn't done it before and made a few

mistakes but that's good to see Schiehallion still ripping along