Position: Port Maurelle
The night was much cooler last night, down to 20 degrees C, we had to get out the sleeping bags as our sheets were not warm enough. But fortunately the blue skies and sun came out today and it was glorious. After a bacon and egg breakfast, with waffles on Kairos, Charles and Matt enjoyed diving the drop off on the west side of Nuku Island down to 34m, and later, the wall back towards Port Maurelle from Swallow�s cave, with the Kairos crew. The rest of us snorkeled the coral in the bay, and marveled at the infinite collection of reef fish we saw. A cruise ship came into Nei�afu today and brought 1800 people to this tiny town � it took two hours just to unload people who wanted to come ashore. One of the yachts here � and we�ve all got to know each other now � Pacific Rose, hired their services at $200 per person for a cruise, and took four people on board for the day, showing them the sights � now that�s enterprising!
We collected drift wood and lit a fire on the beach in the evening, this is something we�re not permitted to do in NZ, so the kids were very excited about it. We discovered that dry palm leaves really make the fire roar, and realized just how quickly the traditioanl woven huts would go up in a fire. The crew from two other boats, Memphis and Just Magic, saw our fire and joined us bringing their guitar, so we had a wonderful evening, singing songs on the beach and chatting, under a full moon. We got back to our boat at 10.30pm!
Joy
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