Having decided to leave Savusavu over the weekend we ramped up our efforts to ready ourselves for the coast/islands. First, I went ashore to find out about getting our dive tanks filled and the exact process for filing our cruising plans. The dive shop at the nearby marina was unmanned so I went to customs running into Paul who was waiting for his next dive lesson/trip. In the end I sorted out fills from his dive instructor. For the permit I discovered we had a maximum 24 hours to get out of the creek after filing which we could only do on a weekday. That made a Sunday departure out of the question. So we’ll be leaving Saturday around noon.
Much of the rest of the day was spent form filling and internet shopping for bits an pieces for our friends to possibly bring from the US in a month or two.
We spent the evening ashore at the Copra Shed marina where they had their weekly fundraising barbecue for the kids sailing team. A couple of the young girls performed some Fijian dancing. This was much more like the dancing we’ve seen before and the two of them had more teeth between them than the last lot.
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