On our way to Fiji....

Viridian
Sun 20 Aug 2023 07:25
Location 17:05.046S 176:30.468W

SOG: 5.6kn
COG: 306T.
Wind Dir: 079T.
Wind: 13.1kn

My main memories of Tonga will be whales and wet.
We saw loads of whales in the area around Vava’u which was lovely.
We had loads of rain there which was not!
It rained every day that we were there so we didn’t explore as much as we would have liked to and eventually we decided that the weather was so miserable we wanted to leave and we moved on after 8 days.

We are now en route to Fiji and the bad weather followed us, it was truly miserable last night with rain, 25kn winds and 4/5m seas.
The weather has now improved and we had a good day sailing today.
We are looking forward to crossing the 180 meridian and arriving in Savusavu in Fiji on Tuesday.