2007-06-19 (2nd)

It's 8:30 AM here, and we're about 7 miles off the lighthouse at Savu Savu Bay. Just spoke to friends already there who say that for unknown reasons the Customs dept closed down for 2 or 3 days starting yesterday, so we don't know what the status is there, but we'll go on in and figure it out. The sun came up and the breeze dropped to about 8 knots, so we're down to about 4 knots boatspeed. No rush, it's VERY pleasant here. The hills are quite beautiful, steep and forest covered. Looking forward to getting lots of fresh water and rinsing things off. I have a list going of things to repair or change, but nothing real expensive or critical. Hard work part of the voyage, but in truth, never really dangerous as long as we didn't do anything stupid. And if we DID, we must have gotten away with it! We'll do some more writing in the next week, and will have access to broadband (I think) at the internet cafe in town. Thanks for the nice, supportive, informative, short emails along the way. Sailmail is excellent. T&K