Another awesome sunset
Port Denereau was a pleasant surprise. It is a wonderful marina surrounded by shops, restaurants and every kind of service you could want. This was really handy as we spent two days getting ready for Taylor and Kylie to arrive – provisioning, fueling up, getting the spare cabin ready, etc. On Monday morning Peter had the cab experience from hell as he took a cab to the Latoka to get checked in (In Fiji you have to check in and check out of each and every domestic area). The cab ran out of fuel and then it got called back for an inspection, so Peter ended up on a couple of public buses, and basically made it back in time for us to turn around and head out to the airport. Of course, the highlight this week has been having them on board. We spent the first night at the marina and went out for dinner. We left around noon the next day and had a great sail over to Musket Cove.
Shopping at the market in Nadi
We have spent the past three nights here, a little longer than planned, but there were high wind warnings and Kylie isn’t the most comfortable sailor. It is an awesome place here though, totally catering to the visiting boats. Of course, in keeping with tradition, Calamity Kylie has an accident on Day Two getting off the dinghy and on to the boat. She sprained her “good” knee and was in quite a bit of pain. Luckily the next day, she felt better and was able to limp along on a walk on land.
Kylie and Taylor on the beach
Last night, at dusk, we went to the island bar where we made our own barbeque dinner. While we were heading over, a snake crawled across Kylie’s foot. She almost lost it in the boat as the only kind of snake that could be in the dinghy was a poisonous sea snake. She freaked out BIG TIME and almost jumped off the dinghy . We managed to get to the dinghy dock (Taylor and Peter were killing themselves laughing). Fortunately we had “tongs” in our bag for our barbeque, so Peter was able to track it down as it slithered underneath the canvas cover and then he threw it back to the sea. Once back on the boat, we had a humungous flying cockroach in the cabin. We have never seen one before and wasn’t able to catch it…so Kylie had a sleepless night between that and her pained leg. Hopefully the rest of the trip for them will be a little less adventurous.
Out for a “limp” with Kylie
Yesterday, I went for my 50th scuba dive with Peter and Taylor. How cool is that to be able to dive with my future son-in-law. We did a pinnacle dive which meant diving down 75 feet and then swimming through the bottom of the pinnacle and then we ascended by circling the inside of the pinnacle. There were literally thousands of fish and we felt like we were swimming in a very crowded aquarium. So much fun. While we were diving, Kylie had a massage, and then as mentioned earlier we all went for dinner to the bar where Taylor made us a great steak dinner, Aussie-style.
Dad supervising Taylor making us a wonderful steak dinner
We are heading out shortly to other out islands. We have decided to stay at the closer islands in this group so that we can spend a couple of nights at each place and do snorkeling and hopefully kayaking if Kylie’s knee is up for it.
Dinner is served
Until next week…..enjoy the last days of July.
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