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A 36 hour passage in improving weather brought us to Vava'u in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is a varied & protected cruising area & we have enjoyed some of its fine anchorages. We were entertained by local villagers to a Tongan feast with mostly unrecognisable food served on plates made of banana stems & the children danced for us. Yesterday we went  on an off road adventure Three hours of driving down muddy tracks, through waist high grasses & along the cliffs of the eastern shore. We arrived back at the anchorage covered in mud.