.: Rain, rain go away…

Beautiful flowers from the market ($3.00)

We were quite happy to return safely from our Futuna Visa run. We are now able to keep the boat here in Fiji over the winter, as we did last year, when we return to Canada.

Just finished checking back in to Fiji. QuickStar in background.

We returned to Savu Savu, which has a nice mooring natural harbour. Unfortunately, It has rained dogs and cats (and sometimes elephants and lions) this whole week, so we haven’t done anything exciting or noteworthy.

View from the town of QuickStar ….in the rain

The Saturday morning market….in the rain

It has been a good week to get inside boat projects done, as well as lots of two-handed bridge and reading. I just finished a great book called The Mulligan (which is a book we are reading in our book club back home). Also, finished the four book series entitled Game of Thrones. Really enjoyed reading about the medieval times and eternally grateful I wasn’t a woman back in those days!

The highlight of the week for the locals was the arrival of a Princess cruise ship. It poured a couple of thousand tourists on the town for one day, all returning to the ship with lots of trinkets.

Princess Cruise Ship

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I have been going wheat free and have eliminated carbs for the past 6 weeks now. Can’t believe I haven’t had any junk food except for ONE chocolate bar, and surprisingly I’m not craving anything. I am going to go one step further with the Paleo diet (thanks for suggesting it Liz). It is a pretty basic diet of meat, seafood, veggies, fruit, nuts and seeds. So no dairy, no gluten and no good stuff! It is supposed to really help with autoimmune diseases such as Lupus and also is supposed to be a really good anti-inflammatory diet…so I’ll give it a good shot. Not supposed to drink alcohol either…but I enjoy our gin and tonics and white wine too much to say goodbye to that while we are out cruising. If anyone has any personal experience with the Paleo diet, I’d really appreciate your feedback and comments. Just send me an email to svquickstar@shaw.ca.

Coming back from grocery shopping….in the rain

Peter a little drenched….in the rain

We are unable to go anywhere at this point because the weather is just socked in and with so many reefs surrounding anchorages, we can’t risk trying to get in to them without proper sunlight to help us eyeball the entrances. We hope to get out cruising again soon. Hope you are enjoying beautiful Fall weather back home. Loved seeing the photos from Lori from Cornation Park in Oakville with all the trees in full autumn colour (my old stomping ground).

The advantage of rainy weather – a double rainbow!