Author: Hannah
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Vanuatu fast and furious
We arrived in Port Resolution, on the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, after 4 days of sailing from Fiji. We spent a week there while waiting for good weather to visit the active volcano of Mount Yasur. We started home schooling again, played soccer with local kids, hung out with our friends on SV Renard,…
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and, our other neighbors came to visit!
We have a pretty tight-knit neighborhood community back home. Thanks to Covid for that! Our neighbors Mary, Erik, Hannah & Simon bought tickets to come visit in Fiji before we left the States. 🙂 They also schlepped a lot of stuff for us, like home school textbooks and a new laptop to be used only…
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Our neighbors came to visit!
We had such a fabulous time with our neighbors Lynette, Sterling & Summer. Sterling is Jade’s BFF, and Jade has been counting down the days until Sterling arrived since we heard they had bought tickets. Luz and Summer had a blast playing together, too. We did a fascinating tour of the KokoMana chocolate farm and…
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Paradise (sortof!)
We sailed overnight from Lakeba to Paradise Resort on the south side of Taveuni island. Riki caught a skipjack tuna trolling and gave it to the resort kitchen as a type of sevusevu. We had lunch and the kids had a swim in the pool. The wind picked up from the north and a mooring…
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Lakeba
We left the Bay of Islands in Vanua Balavu last Wednesday, together with SV Pangea, heading towards Fulaga in the Southern Lau group. We hoped to arrive the following day in Fulaga, but the wind was too strong (20+ knots) and from the wrong direction (on the nose) so we decided to stop in Lakeba.…
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Coconut hunting
The same day as we provisioned, we went to a beach in the afternoon to go coconut hunting. Taylor has some special tools for opening coconuts, and she taught us how to do it.
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Provisioning (ie. grocery shopping) in Vanua Balavu
On Monday morning, I went to pick up Taylor at 6:00 am in our dinghy. Then we pulled up the anchor and had coffee while motoring about an hour to get to the village of Daliconi. The video is us going through the Bay of Islands. After we anchored near the village, Riki took Taylor…
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God is good
On Wednesday before we left Savusavu we were walking home from Anjana’s house, when we stopped to get ice cream. Her brother Devan insisted on buying the kids ice cream cones. Luz dropped the ice cream off her cone almost immediately, and she started to cry. Tomu just handed her his cone, without saying anything.…
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First few weeks in Fiji
Fiji is a special place for Riki and I — we met in Savusavu in July 2012. We also cruised in Fiji for 10 months on Riki’s old boat, SV Guava Jelly, in 2014-2015 when Tomu was a baby. It feels like a treat to come back to Fiji. The people are so kind here.…
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Opua, NZ to Savusavu, Fiji
It took us exactly 6 days to sail to North Minerva Reef. The first few days were pretty mellow as far as waves and wind — I was even playing Doppelkopf (a German card game) with the kids down below. I used half a patch of Scopolamine for sea-sickness, and I gave the kids each…
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