Sailing to the west side of Fiji
Lynn & Mike ..around the world
Mike Drinkrow & Lynn v/d Hoven
Sun 25 Aug 2013 01:15
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17:18.84S 178:13.77E Sailing to the west side of Fiji
From Viani Bay we headed back to
Savu-Savu for a quick stop to pick up some extra paperwork from customs.
The weather was looking good so we headed out across to Namena Reef (a marina
sanctuary) for the night. Only one other boat came in, and it was another
Nordhavn! Jennifer and James on Dirona, whom we had met in Moorea. I
quickly whipped up some frozen margaritas and we enjoyed a beautiful sunset with
them.
The next morning we continued over
to the north side of Viti Levu (main island of Fiji) and followed a very windy
path between the reef and the main land for the whole day- eding up in
this anchorage at Nananu-I-ra. We had planned to stay here for a day
or two but the wind was howling. The kite surfers were having a great time, but
we decided to press on to Lautoka main town on the west side.
One very good thing about Fiji is
the brilliant and fairly cheap access to the internet through Vodafone - we have
coverage with a 3G card just about everywhere we go. Feels pretty weird to be
sailing between islands, catching up on emails and internet!
 View from the wheelhouse as we
wind our way through the reefs
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