Monthly Archives: June 2011

We had a fairly relaxed morning aboard the boat. I needed to sort out a credit card issue which primarily involved waiting for the cell phone network to come up so I could make calls and use (‘use’ is hardly … Continue reading →

While the rain poured down outside, I spent the first few hours of the day ordering boat parts using the internet over the local vodafone connection. We’ve been getting used to using the very slow GPRS rate and here it’s … Continue reading →

In the morning we motored around to the west side of Vanua Balavu and anchored off the small village of Daliconi. We motored almost all the way. For a while we did have the head sail up to assist but … Continue reading →

In the cool morning air I set about sorting out our bilge pumps. The problem one was in the starboard hull but that side is much harder to work in. So I first took the good pump out of the … Continue reading →

As planned we started the day with a trip in the kayak. We ended up paddling all the way around Qilaqila Island to the west of our last stop. The swell was coming in from the North East and we … Continue reading →