Saturday, October 23, 2010

Naviti Island

Hello All,
We left our anchorage this morning at 0900. The sun was shining and the visibility was good. We navigated basically by eye because my charts don't show this area very well. When we got out into open water the wind was blowing up to 30 knots and it was a little rough. I motored the whole way down just because under sail its to hard to stop the boat if we came across a hidden reef. We made the 11 mile crossing in 2.5 hours. Our new anchorage is on the north side of Naviti Island. When we got close we saw that Steve and Trish on Curious were here so we were happy to meet up with them once again. They were on the beach at the time we arrived but soon after they came back to the boat and said hello and invited us over for dinner tonight. It was really nice to see them again. We haven't been in the same anchorage since Moorea, Tahiti. There is a small village close by and after getting settled in we went to see the chief and present sevu sevu. We chatted with a few of the locals and then took a walk down the beach. This is another beautiful place to visit. On the other side of the Island there is an old WW2 plane that crashed and you can snorkel on it. Curious was over there today and said it was very cool and a must see.
We had a fabulous dinner with them tonight. They have a back packing couple that they met 2 days ago on one of the other Islands and they are bringing them along while they explore the Yasawa Group. The couple fixed us all dinner tonight, sushi, fish, rice and lots of other stuff, it was very good. We got all caught up on where we have been and what we have been doing.
We will be here a few days, lots to see and do so for now I will let you go.

PEACE

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