Suva is a place of grey skies and much rain. We stayed in port until Saturday morning, all of it under a drizzle – then headed for Kadavu for a shakedown sail to make Read More …

Thursday was more of the same – errands and maintenance. Anouk is in the process of cooking up supplies of soup and casseroles for preparation-free meals during the passage (it’s hard to cook pounding through Read More …

  Tuesday morning we awoke to the sound of the anchor chain being pulled up at 6:45 a.m. – Rod was apparently in a hurry to leave for Suva. We motored (no wind) across the Read More …

While still in Beqa Lagoon we took one last dive, returning to Glory Hole where we completed our first commercial dive last week. It was a spectacularly beautiful dive site and we wanted to return Read More …

A slow start this morning as we were waiting for high tide, having been told that the river here cuts through the entire island and when the water is high we can navigate it all Read More …

Very early this morning I kayaked, camera in hand, a short ways up the mouth of a freshwater river that empties into our bay. It was lined and overhung with mangrove trees and felt like Read More …

Good news  – the emails continue! The Shark Dive has been going on three days a week for the past seven years – the only injury occurring to a diver who fell asleep on the Read More …

  This morning we pulled up our anchor and headed over to Beqa Island proper, into a beautiful protected bay surrounded on three sides by steep, heavily forested hills. This was an extremely comfortable anchorage Read More …

We spent the entire week in Beqa Lagoon, the main activity being diving. Picking up the narrative from last week… Monday and Tuesday, October 17 & 18 From Vatulele we motored over to Yaduca (pronounced Read More …