Back to bed

I slept lightly and heard the unmistakable beat of marine diesel engines going past in the dark, so I got up at 0400 and was dressed when Steve from Cormorant knocked on the cabin side. Cormorant has no engine, so we had offered to tow them off the pontoon since we had to move anyway, but Yvonne came up with a better offer. She was leaving at the same time, and offered them a tow down river which they gratefully accepted since there was hardly any wind.

With a half moon and clear sky we could see really well, and it was no hardship to go for a little motor in the moonlight while Kajan left her mud berth and got the tow on Cormorant. The only incident came when someone flashed a torch at us; we had forgotten to turn our navigation lights on and they did not have a clue what we were doing. (I had not seem them until they flashed the torch, just heard what sounded like an anchor being raised.)

We tied up alongside the motor boat where Cormorant had been, and had a cup of tea, then went back to bed.