To Nomuka
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 25 Nov 2013 23:57
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To Nomuka Island
  As the
song begins ‘What a difference a day makes, twenty four little
hours.....................’. We got up this morning to a bright, sunny, calm,
blue morning and could see for miles, across to the left Tofua, and Kao (both volcanic)
and the tiny Kotu Island.
 We can
even make out the breakers on the reef.
  It was nice to
see the locals out and about on
Ha’afeva.
 At twenty past
ten the skipper hoisted the main and went forward and raised the anchor. We
waved the island of Ha’afeva
‘farewell’ and began todays twenty six and a bit mile motor sail with
Baby Beez happily trotting along behind.
 To the Nomuka Group within
the Ha’apai Group of
islands.
 Robinson
Crusoe would be very happy here.
 Just as you picture a Pacific Island.
 To our right
Muifuiva has one light, one goat and hundreds of sea
birds.
 We turn left
with Nomuka Iki (Iki meaning small) on our right and
Nomuka on the left. The water depth comes up from
three hundred feet to seventy five in the middle. We can just see the reef
marker pole off Nomuka.
 We trundle
along the bottom of the island and see Wildlife at anchor. The radio chirped and we caught up
with the crew (met at Mariner’s Café, Lifuka). They tell us the best spot to
anchor, beyond the ferry entry markers, off we go.
 We see a small village...................
 .................and pass a huge church to
anchor in forty feet of water outside the reef.
 Nomuka Iki, Bear tells me has the remains of a prison,
would you believe......
 A one careful owner on the beach may need a closer look. We
settle for a late lunch, I got a good beating and unnecessary loss at backgammon
(5-4), beaten at sequence AND upword. Now cross as a wasp I took backgammon
revenge again 5-4 and we enjoy an interesting sunset, ready to explore on the
morrow.
   ALL IN ALL STILL SINGING ‘WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY
MAKES’
A GENTLE MOTOR SAIL ON A FLAT, BLUE
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