Author: Hannah
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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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Hats, Clips and More Dhal Please
One of Wade’s two favorite activities on Guava is standing on the nav table and pulling all of the baseball caps off of the ship’s bell where they are stored. Then he likes to ring the bell. Whenever we are down below his gaze drifts to the hats, his eyes light up, and he starts…
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In Spite of Ourselves
In Spite of Ourselves is the name of a John Prine song that he sings with Iris De Ment. It’s a love song with some funny lyrics. John Prine has a special place in both Riki & my hearts because when we met in Savu Savu, Fiji two years ago Riki was playing guitar and…
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Vanua Balavu
Here are some photos from our time in Vanua Balavu. When we did the sevu sevu ceremony (where we present our kava to the chief of the village, in effect asking for permission to be in their waters, fish, swim, dive, etc.), one of the men held Wade on his lap.
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Life on a Boat: Simplicity and Time
The other night while lying in bed before we went to sleep, Riki and I were talking about some of the differences between life here and life back home in the States. Some things are undeniably harder about living on a 35 foot boat than living in a 1350 square foot house. For example, when…
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