Safe arrival in Niue
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Thu 5 Jun 2008 09:19
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19:03.373S 169:55.532W
After an eventful night of high winds moderating to
good-enough-to-sail winds, we arrived with no problem in Alofi Bay on the island
country of Niue at about 10am local time this morning (we are now seven
hours behind EST).
The welcome we've received has been more
enthusiastic and genuine than any place we've been so far, which is marvelous,
and the people speak their native language as well as, yes, English! First
time since we left St. Lucia in January that we've been in a country where the
official language is English. The customs people asked us a few questions
and we had to bite our tongues not to answer, 'wee' or 'si' like we've been
programmed to do over the last four months. We've forgotten how nice
it is to walk down the street and actually understand what people are
saying. Wow.
More on this place and pictures from Suwarrow to
follow in the next few days. We will only be here for two or three days
maximum before moving on to Tonga, which will be a short two-day sail
west. We wouldn't mind staying longer, but there are only twenty moorings
and because there is no dock and it is too difficult to anchor here, we have to
leave to make room for other incoming rally boats.
Cheers from the tiny country of Niue and its 1500
English speaking inhabitants.
Anne
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