Escapade on the slow road to Oz.

Escapade continue to send updates on their cruise home from Osaka.

Southern tip of Honshu, Friday morning 19th May, heading into what turned out to be 3.5 days of non-stop 1.5m chop from 3 or more different directions, occasional large waves.

Chichi-jima main street looking East- very busy work day - note the traffic

Harbour entrance is on the right of the big rock.

Main street looking West - the weekly ferry in the midground, traffic police (one each end) to handle the chaos caused by the cable works - yes, it looks like Chichi-jima is getting NBN too.

Dinner at Boudin restaurant (Mark and Ryan from Spirit of Downunder met some girls who worked there

Yes, the photo of Vladmir includes
Escapade: Vladimir, Ms Vladimir, Brian

Spirit of Downunder
Mike, Tim, Georgie, Mark from McKay (empty plate at bottom, no turtle for mark), Ryan (hands grabbing his piece of green turtle)

Spirit headed off this morning just after 9:00, headed for Saipan, expecting
to be there in about 5 days.

Escapade is heading out this afternoon, about 17:00, destination Saipan via
a number of stops on the way, 1st may be HaHa-shima, but weather conditions/night
time arrival may preclude and may end up further south instead.

Did washing today, sitting out on the boat, and now bucketing down and me in town. Oh well.
130524 Escapade pos 24may 1500 26 10n 141 43e cse 215 spd 6kt Next stop io jima shabu shabu for lunch Haha jima last night, beggs(bacon and eggs!) for bfast.Vladimir.