Big Journey
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 22 Jun 2015 22:57
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Three Point Eight Miles and There We
Were
   Our morning was spent doing last
minute bibs and bobs, makes a change from bits and bobs
I suppose, saves you getting bored, anyhoo - buying bread, filling
up with water, showering, paying the marina and finally our last meal out for
several weeks. Off the pontoon at ten to two, we waved a fond ‘farewell’ to
the Copra Shed, our home for the last two weeks and a
weekend. Not since Tahiti have we been able to stroll down the road for just
about anything we need, we will miss Savusavu but must move on to pastures new.
Lovely to look up and see Scott-Free to our
right. Very soon we were going past the Botanical
Gardens and deep water.
 Very grey
in the bay, a far cry from the azure blues we entered on.
 After a massive motor of three point
eight miles we pulled over to the well known
anchorage, to the right is the renowned Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort, just
by a waypoint I had randomly plopped on the chart plotter.
 We chose a spot near a very pretty house and anchored for the first time since Big
Mamas in Tonga.
  It was a treat to
see Bear go in off the back of Beez, meanwhile I got back into
the saddle. At the end of each trip I clear the route just completed of
waypoints and plot the next one, adding a few extra at the end for ‘fine
tuning’, here we have the luxury of exact markers on chartlets given to us by
Curly last Sunday at his lecture. I very much enjoyed fiddling about, tomorrow
is about forty five miles – in open sea, we’ll be able to tuck in behind a reef
and feel like we are back in Pacific Islands and away from town, really looking
forward to it.
 We watched Michaela paddle over to Scott-Free, then over to
us, we were invited for sundowners. We spent a very pleasant time aboard
Ailita, suddenly quite tired at eight o’clock I hear you shout. The
silence was deafening, gently rocking – marvellous, simply
marvellous.
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ALL IN ALL SMASHING TO BE AT
ANCHOR
WONDERFUL |