Sunday 1st May 2022

After two months in the Maldives we’re leaving this morning for the 300 mile passage south to the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territories) where we’ll spend one or two weeks in glorious isolation before a further 1000 miles west to the The Seychelles. We’ve provisioned for a month🤞and filled every spare container with diesel but hope to sail most of the way.

To learn about how the people of Chagos were forcibly removed from their homes in the 1960s this is an interesting watch:

The weather forecast is looking ok with a fairly brisk start but some motoring later. We’re feeling excited although a bit apprehension

We’ve been too busy over the last three weeks in the Maldives for me to blog, but I’ll get up to date when we arrive in the Seychelles (no mobile phones or wifi in Chagos or on passage).