October 7

Today we arrived in Fiji at Vanua Levu . We had a great sail here, the wind was around 15 to 20 and we set all our sails on a easy beam reach. The wind died on approach to Fiji and so we motor sailed the last 8 hours. We did have a bit of excitement the day before with an electrical fire, I don’t know why it happened but the Captain is on the case. Luckily the space in which the fire started is rather short of oxygen so it stayed very small.  

We are anchored off the Costeau Dive Resort owned by Jean Micheal Cousteau – the great Jacque Cousteau’s son. We went to talk to the dive people about diving, they have fast boats so we can go places we normally couldn’t reach by dinghy.  We met a Aussie family staying at the hotel – they have 3 kids, ages 4 to 7. We chatted and then spent the afternoon in the pool as “guests” of this family. Excellent! I ordered Tequila Sunrises and we spent a lovely afternoon.