26th August 2010
Again a change of plan. The weather forecast was not good for heading south so we decided to take an extra day in Komi and spent it on the beach. Whilst we were sunbathing we were witness to a forest fire in the neighbouring bay which we had nearly gone in to to escape the strong winds. It was the gum trees burning and a helicopter and two fire fighting planes spent the afternoon fighting the flames. They were collecting water from the sea and dumping it on the flames and the surrounding countryside. It lasted well into the evening. As we were leaving the beach to return to the yacht we met up again with Dimitri and his sister. They had expressed an interest in visiting the yacht during our evening together the night before. We took them out to the boat and showed them around. On the way back to the beach the dinghy outboard started to play op so back they came and waited whilst Svein repaired it and was able to take them back ashore.