Today, Saturday the 30 of June would have been a pretty good day for us to have headed for the southern tip of Vanua Levu, bound for Also Island. The down side was that there was NO WIND at all until nearly noon, so the start would have been a motoring run. But we had made a date for today to meet Curly, the cruising guru of SavuSavu, and we were glad we got to see him. I've talked to him on the radio for about 5 years, and run errands in NZ to get him things and information he had no access to from a variety of South Pacific islands. Over a dinner of terrific curry he gave us a much more nuanced and complete political and economic picture of Fiji than we had been able to put together ourselves. When we arrived, he was away on a yacht delivery, but sailed back in yesterday, so we at least got one good visit before we left.
Tomorrow looks to be similar to today, so barring unforseen changes, we'll head out around dawn, and try to be thru the pass and around to the west side of the island by tomorrow night. Once we're inside the reef on the west side we should be able to pick our way up to Labasa in a couple of days, probably stop there to resupply, then make Also Island (at Thawaro) the next day. We feel pretty ready to move again, though we've found some great people here. We know there'll be more at the next stops, so we're away.
Ted
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