Leaving Vavau soon
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Sat 26 Oct 2013 01:19
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Yesterday we started with a morning swim in the
christal clear water, had breakfast and sailed into town.
There we had some business to do and lunch at
Tropicana was a success. Fish and chips!
After that Anders and I took off for checking
out from Vavau. Even if you are sailing within Tonga the authoroties want
you to check in and out of the different island groups.We started with Ministry
of Infrastructure, then to customs and finally imigration. And as there where
lines or they where closed for lunch it took all afternoon.
Ellinor took care of the fruit and vegetables
supply at the market.
We decided to stay over night since we where so
late and had pizza at Aquarium. A delightful place where we met Almacantar and
Tuatara.
Tuatara is finishing their 22 years of sailing, and
they have the same friend on board for the last leg that they had on their first
leg leaving New Zealand!
This morning it took us a while to get ready and
now we are anchored at Pt Laurelle waiting for dawn.
The length of the sail is not suitable to make
during the day, since we have about 12 hours to go. Not smart to reach a very
coral intensive island group with bad charting at night.
So if everything works out we will arrive tomorrow
morning.
Right now the kids, Anders and Ellinor are in the
small village to ask how they grow their things. In school they have something
called the farmers year and Ellinor had an idea of making the same but from the
tropics.
I'm on board with a flue and feel quite down. But
as unbeliavable as it might sound I have a circus performance in front of
me!
On our neighbour boat, that has a black striped
flagg with small black stars (we have never seen them before), there is a woman
practicing "rope balley" .
You have probably seen them in a circus, they have
a thick rope hanging down from the ceiling, the artists can sort of roll
themselves around the rope moving upwards, then they tangle themselves in
different positions and you wonder when they will fall down or how they can keep
track on the where the rope is around their legs etc....
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