We left Savu Savu early on Monday morning after checking out at customs and headed towards Vuda Point marina on the largest island of Fiji, Viti Levu.

Our plan was to go South around the island through Bligh water and track our way through lots of reefs and islands, anchoring on route.

However we soon began to realise that there was a lack of anchoring places that we could safely reach in daylight hours and, since we needed to reach Vuda point the next day, we decided to head North in open sea and travel through the night instead.

Everything went to plan and we arrived in the marina at midday, giving us time to check in and to take a taxi into the main town of Latouka where we needed to clear customs (again!).

The entrance to the marina was very narrow as we had arrived at low water and we scraped the bottom a couple of times as we came through !

We were glad to be entering in daylight since our chart plotter was plotting our position on land.

This is understandable because the marina is totally man made and has a circular dredged out basin with a channel entering from the sea.

It is a very pretty marina with a nice restaurant and shop and a small hotel complex joined by a walk way.

We have booked for the boat to be lifted out and cleaned here and we are also planning to pick up Katie, Charlotte and Holly from the airport on Saturday, which is 15mins away by taxi.

We had booked the boat to be lifted out at the marina the next day and have the bottom scrubbed and the hull polished.