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| Windy today in overcast Port Vila, Vanuatu. |
We’ve
been busy and non-communicative.
To catch folks up:
I
left Arizona for Fiji the beginning of June, alone. The plan (and all went
according to plan) was for me to fly solo and move the boat to the yard in Vuda
Point, have the old girl hauled, and do all the needed grunt work before Windy
and the girls (having wrapped up Arizona life for the season and having visited
old and new relatives in California) flew in 3 weeks later to board a boat that
was more or less (less) ready to sail west.
Then we sailed west.
We just arrived in Vanuatu.
I’ll
let the pictures tell the whole story.
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| Jumping back to last December, here are the girls in Musket Cove, Fiji, getting a lesson from the local volunteer beekeeper. |
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| Days later, via Fiji Airways, we were back in lovely Ajo, Arizona, and reunited with our white truck. |
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| We let the javalinas know we were back and that they needed to find another place to hang. |
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| Then we noticed they were tearing down the problem house two doors down... |
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| And that we had more to do on the white house we were camping in than we thought. |
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| And that the sweet little raspberry house between the white house and the problem house was for sale and move-in ready, so we bought it. |
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| So while Windy worked on the raspberry house... |
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| And I dove deep on the white house... |
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| And Eleanor completed middle school... |
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| And Frances fostered dogs.... |
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| We enjoyed our lives in Ajo. Here we are one of our last nights before returning to Fiji, watching Coco at the outdoor community pool. |
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| Before I knew it, I was back in Fiji, working on Del Viento and missing my family. That's when Lin Pardey stopped by to lend a hand. |
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| Then my jet-lagged ladies joined me in Fiji. |
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| And helped me get the boat finished. Here Frances is up the mast running the lazy jack lines through the cheek blocks. |
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| I should have written a whole post about this photo. This is Miriam from Enough and Aimee and Phil from Terrapin, all dear cruising friends. Not pictured is Jeff from Enough and all the crew aboard the other boats who made our last bit of time in Fiji so memorable: Me Too (plastic-free Saweni Beach!), Cape D (Fatty Boom-Boom!), and Bear (Frances is back in top form, thank you Mamma Bear). Just appreciate this setting, with that evening sky, a view of our boats, a place to cook, no clean up, and a bar at the ready. Many great evenings spent here over two seasons with a gaggle of great kids and parents. |
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| Last water top-off after checking out of Fiji. |
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| And our last anchorage in Momi Bay, the morning we set out for Vanuatu. Couldn't this be California? |
