Half-Way to Fiji

Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 23 Jun 2008 00:17
18:28.883S  178:43.931W
 
Believe it or not, we are still perfectly on schedule.  We reached the islands and reefs of the Fijian Lau Group precisely at daybreak, had no trouble navigating through them, and are now having a beautiful sail through the Coral Sea on our way to one of the Fiji ports of entry, Lautoka on Viti Levu Island.
 
The sea is flat because the swell is now blocked by the Lau Group of islands and reefs that runs north to south between Tonga and Fiji.  We have just enough wind pushing us to keep us going at just under 6 knots and there is not a single cloud in the sky.  Marvelous!  We wish all of our ocean passages could be this smooth.
 
Now if we could just catch one of those triple black-flip, double twisting Pacific mahi-mahi fish...
Anne