Category Archives: Fiji

Musket Cove

By morning the swell at Navadra was pretty bad. As we were familiar with the reefs outside of Navadra we decided to leave earlier than normal and were off by just after 7am. We exited the bay pounding into the … Continue reading

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Navadra

We gradually ran out of wind as we approached Navadra and were down to less than 6 knots by the time we’d passed Waya so we had to motor the last few miles. While we didn’t catch any fish we … Continue reading

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Fish and mantas?

The day started with a lobster feast for breakfast. We boiled all of them in a pot, the smallest first, eating the cooked ones while the next ones went in. We decided to leave the last and largest one for … Continue reading

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An Active Day

The first activity planned for the day was a visit to the caves. Helen had woken to a sore throat and, having seen them before, stayed behind. We all wanted to get there before anyone else so we left around … Continue reading

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Back to Sawa-I-Lau

We had quite light winds so we motored up the west coast of Nathula Island and anchored beneath Sawa-I-Lau. On the way we had two lines out and snagged a nice sized Walu which we bled and kept to be … Continue reading

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