Another two days mostly motoring, flat calm seas. Today we passed Rome, there were SO MANY boats out fishing. Water was boiling with fish, hour after hour. I did catch a couple of nice mackerel and cooked them rather well, so somehow the dangerous pollution has been forgotten. Anne even ate the roe!

Caught on a nice blue squid lure made with Steve's help for when Tony T and I went trolling for albacore at hippolyte. Italian fish like Australian food!

tomorrow we move again to Pontine islands and that will do for a few days...

Anzio had one nice surprise for us. We went to sleep at 9, anchored outside the harbour, just off the beach. At around midnight we noticed a lot of noisy people in boats around us..... they were all in party mood and out to watch the fireworks! So we had a half hour of huge fireworks. We couldn't have parked closer to them!