Waiting for the weather!

So we are still here in Richards Bay waiting for a long enough weather window to sail down the coast to east london as we do not really want to stop in Durban which is very crowded at present. Monday was looking good to leave but now we see some SW winds on Tuesday?! Peter is getting very frustrated as he wants to go but we have to leave at the right time if we do not want to put ourselves in a difficult situation. The advice is to leave at the tail end of a low pressure system passing through to maximise the time available before the weather changes again. Low pressure systems come through every 3 to 5 days so you do not have much time to make progress before the next sytem is on top of you! At the moment Monday is OK but Tuesday has light winds from SW (not a good direction) but only for 24 hours then back to E and NE (good direction) until Thursday morning! In the meantime we are enjoying our stay here. Tonight we have been invited on board Zoe for an American Thanksgiving feast. Zoe has 4 crew - Ed and his wife Zoe plus Zoe's brother George and girlfriend Lynda. We plan to sail in company with Zoe down to cape Town. They are on a tighter timescale than we are as ed & Zoe fly home to California on 9 December. We have arranged a berth in the Royal Cape yacht Club from 11 December as we get hauled out there on 18 December so it gives Peter time to do other work on the boat. We also get another rig check done in Cape town. The Zululand YC where we are berthed is a small friendly club and the wildlife is interesting. Each morning around 5 to 6 am there are small monkeys playing around the boats. we have not had any monkeys on board Trompeta but Zoe have had monkeys in the boat eating their bananas and cookies!!