Graptolite - In Sugar City
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sat 28 Jun 2008 08:24
After a fairly tricky night weaving through reefs and islets we arrived in
Lautoka to clear in with the authorities. Lautoka is the main sugar cane
processing and exporting city in Fiji and is colourful but is not all that
attractive a place so we moved on south to Vuda Point. The marina was not on
our charts and electronically involved motoring towards a coral beach and
well inland through an uncharted channel before finding a berth. I have to
say I hate doing that!
We went into Lautoka today in search of some spare electrical parts but
shops shut down around midday on Saturday and we had no success. Colin and
Belinda then went off to an expensive resort for some quality time before
Tuesday's flight and Heike and I took a look at the 'Garden of the Sleeping
Giant' which is a nearby tropical rainforest walk and orchid collection.
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