Leaving Fiji

Bula from Fiji. This our last post from here. We are NZ bound. 

Our plan is to depart early am 01 Nov (NZ time). We expect to be 8-10 days. 8 would be awesome, but the wind is a fickle mistress. 

Position reports post to oceantracking.com.  Our call sign is WDJ9035.  You'll note that initially we will be heading a little more west. We will not be getting a rhumb line sail. Sadly. Once the high pressure system we are leaving on clocks around more easterly, we will head more southeast too.

So starting tomorrow we will be without internet. I will be posting on the blog. Www.evergreenadventures.blogspot.com.  As always we love hearing from you while we are underweigh. Our sailmail is wdj9035@sailmail.com.  Keep those cards and letters coming (who is old enough to remember that phrase ?).  Dennis will also be checking in each evening on the northland radio net .  We think it's 1900 hrs NZ time.  Josh is the adult in charge of us while we are off the grid. He mentioned that it is weird that in the US he can't have a legal drink but here he is our key go to person. We love you Josh.    (no, don't jeez mom me.)

We left Denarau today after a busy morning checking out and using up the last of our Fiji dollars. Back on the boat the dinghy came up on the deck and last minute things got stowed. The sail to musket cove was pretty full on and likely what we can expect the first few days. Not awful, but not a nice beam reach either. It is of course as windy as it been. Anchored in 20+kts of wind. Only took two tries .. 

I have been pre cooking some food, and we have a good selection of easy to cook meals. This is our first long passage just the two of us. Hopefully we will both arrive in one piece - Evergreen too. :)

Off to enjoy my last flat night for a week. Talk soon

Musket Cove

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4 October Fulaga

Wow time has sure flown by. Fulaga is awesome, we have really enjoyed our time here. The weather has been very windy, so we have spent our time in the village. Church and lunch on Sunday, hung out with Ma at the school on Monday - it is exam week and each of the villages does the food each day. OMG the food. and it is always eat Dennis, eat Carol Yikes!! I am pretty sure that if we had been fed like that for exams we would have been like, bring 'em on, yay food!!
Tuesday I stayed at the boat, cleaning and cooking - Ma, Teddy and Joshua came for dinner. Typical 6 yr old, Joshua watched 3 movies. It was a good time. Dennis was in the village all day - having lunch and kava at the school and looking at Ma & Teddy's water tank that was leaking. They decided it was the fittings, so yesterday when we went in Dennis fixed those. I taught Ma how to make cake over the fire like we used to do when camping. we made a dutch oven kind of thing and made wacky cake (no eggs). It turned out good. Her grandmother came to watch too. Dennis and I were surprised that cooking like that was something I could teach them. I also gave her a recipe for chowder - they just give the leftover yams and fish to the pigs - easy to get one more meal out of it.
So yeah very interesting to see how they live on a day to day basis. So friendly and giving. In return, and note to anyone reading this and thinking of coming here. Bring dollar store readers, masks for diving, fishing line and hooks, vanilla, cocoa, olive oil. The powder kava is okay to bring to give out, just not for the sevusevu, that has to be the plant.

We will leave this afternoon with the high tide and sail to Toyota which is 70 nm away. The wind has been strong for the last week, so I imagine we will have big wave action, but at least it should be mostly downwind sailing. We will end up at Vuda Point to get work done on the boat. Then if we have time we may go to musket cove. Before we know it, we'll be looking for a weather window to head back to NZ.

Off to make pasta for school lunch today - lol.

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