Tuesday afternoon off to Sawa-i-Lau. Went into the village to meet the chief..very well spoken man, nice house. Did some shopping at the market on the beach and headed back to have lobster grilled with butter for dinner !
16 50.86S 177 27.99E
Wednesday morning, looks like rain is coming...man did it bucket down. In about 2 hours the dinghy was nearly full !..We should save some of that for washing !!
While it rained I made some meals for the passage, spaghetti bolognaise, 6 containers of it.
By midday the rain has gone and the sky cleared so set off to Yasawairara. hooked a walu on the way up but before I could get it on the boat, it broke free......damn
Beautiful white sand beach, very tidy village , new house building going on. Met a well spoken chap who told us about the resort project where the village is leasing 75 acres to an NZ busness man. He's coming in two weeks to start the development.
The village gets money for the lease of the land, jobs for the villagers at the resort and 7% of the profits...not bad !
16 42.54S 177 34.47E
Thursday morning there's a nice breeze from the east, set off with the main up and pretty soon we're broad reaching with main and genoa in 10 -13 knots, clear sky, sunshine just lovely...when Bang !, my fishing rod cranks right over and with a whack the line breaks..its 60kg braid...and it's gone..depth is 35m couldn't have been a rock surely ? Anyway that's par for the course...run out of luers and haven't landed a fish !!
By early afternoon back in the Blue Lagoon.
16 56.65S 177 22.03E
16 50.86S 177 27.99E
Wednesday morning, looks like rain is coming...man did it bucket down. In about 2 hours the dinghy was nearly full !..We should save some of that for washing !!
While it rained I made some meals for the passage, spaghetti bolognaise, 6 containers of it.
By midday the rain has gone and the sky cleared so set off to Yasawairara. hooked a walu on the way up but before I could get it on the boat, it broke free......damn
Beautiful white sand beach, very tidy village , new house building going on. Met a well spoken chap who told us about the resort project where the village is leasing 75 acres to an NZ busness man. He's coming in two weeks to start the development.
The village gets money for the lease of the land, jobs for the villagers at the resort and 7% of the profits...not bad !
16 42.54S 177 34.47E
Thursday morning there's a nice breeze from the east, set off with the main up and pretty soon we're broad reaching with main and genoa in 10 -13 knots, clear sky, sunshine just lovely...when Bang !, my fishing rod cranks right over and with a whack the line breaks..its 60kg braid...and it's gone..depth is 35m couldn't have been a rock surely ? Anyway that's par for the course...run out of luers and haven't landed a fish !!
By early afternoon back in the Blue Lagoon.
16 56.65S 177 22.03E