The passage from Fiji to Australia had us on our toes for weather and navigation as we headed north for a couple of gales in our vicinity, into a harbor for a night to avoid another gale, and we were a few days ahead of a late season cyclone that developed right behind our track. We stopped at Mellish Reef, an uninhabited sand bar in the Coral Sea, for a snorkel and swim, Ken turned 74 on May 11, and Jules bailed out the dinghy underway after squalls, including one that caught us off guard with full sail at 42kts.