Back in Port Denaru

I really can’t believe it but here we are, back in Port Denaru, after a mere two day escape.

The reason for being here is simple. Helen’s tooth really needs to be fixed. Looking at the weather forecast yesterday morning there was no decent sailing window back to the mainland. There was one, maybe two days of light winds followed by strengthening trades right from the direction we’d want to travel. So it was stay out for an indeterminate number of days or motor back. The choice was obvious.

Where to go was not. I was not keen on returning to Port Denaru. Once out of Nevadra I was able to access the internet via the Vodafone network. There were many more dentists in Nadi than Lautoka. I called a few and they all closed at 1pm not to open until Monday. We considered stopping at Treasure Island for the night before completing the journey on Sunday but in the end opted to push on and make it all the way. Because Nadi had the greater number of dentists we reluctantly returned to Denaru.

I had called ahead to secure a mooring but by the time we arrived they’d given the two spare ones over to folks who arrived before us. We are therefore anchored further away from the center of things. Good in that it’s free, quieter and cooler but bad in that we can barely access the free internet ashore. I’m hoping we can get the work done quickly and get out of here sooner rather than later.