Author: Hannah
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Some sailing adventures
We were anchored just south of Naviti island in the Yasawas, near the Manta Ray pass. It was a rolly anchorage. Rolly anchorages are not much fun, and they are even less fun with a baby. A rolly anchorage means that someone has to be watching Tomu more closely than normal because there is a…
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Disneyrau
Well, Denerau is tourist central in Fiji. There are several huge luxury yachts on the docks, and as you walk up from the dinghy dock you arrive at Hard Rock Cafe Fiji. There are 5 or 6 fancy resorts on the island, and tons of boats coming and going taking tourists out to islands for…
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Savusavu to Denerau
We finally left Savusavu even though the Fiji weather service called for strong winds (20-25 knots) and intermittent rain. Basically, we woke up and it wasn’t raining, and we checked the grib files for the weather forecast, which didn’t look as bad, so we decided to go for it. We were both tired of waiting…
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Silly pics
Some silly photos while sailing one day.
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Diwali, Dentist, and First Fever
We were in Savusavu for 2 weeks. We wanted to leave after 10 days, but it was rainy and grey with strong winds forecasted, so we postponed our departure. It seems that happens often on a sailboat–you plan to leave a certain day, but then the weather (or something else) causes you to change your…
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Head Shaking
Lately Wade has been shaking his head back and forth while making noise. He does it when he’s excited about something.
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Back to Savu Savu
We sailed back to Savu Savu. It took us 12 hours. We pulled up the anchor at 8:15 am, and motored into the harbor at 8 pm. It was dark & eerie trying to make out the boats and the empty mooring balls. Luckily Curly was waiting at the mooring ball for us, shining a…
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Cooking
Turns out I didn’t provision that well when we left Savu Savu. Well, we ran out of meat after a week, and didn’t have that much canned goods. So I was cooking dried beans in the pressure cooker. I made lentil soup 3 times, which was yummy, luckily. I sprouted mung beans and put them…
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Qamea
We spent a week anchored in a bay on the eastern side of the island of Qamea. Riki had been here twice before in 2012 and he always spoke so highly of it–kindof glowing as he gushed about it. So I have been wanting to go there for the past two years. To reach the…
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While on Watch
We left the Bay of Islands in Vanua Balavu around 5 pm. We made it out of the pass before dark. It was quite windy, Riki’s guess was 20-25 knots, but it was from behind so it felt like less. (We don’t have a gauge that tells us the wind speed.) It was also a…
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