Port Maurelle
We walked from our bay to Otea Village this morning, about 20 minutes on a dirt track. We were looking for the LDS chapel with the million dollar view and we found it in this little village. The chapel overlooks a magnificent bay and is right on the waters edge. One of the villagers and a church member showed us around his village. The principal of the government primary school came out and spoke to us, there were 18 children at the school and two teachers who lived in the village. We gave him balloons to give to the children, not much, but it was all we had on us. He offered to take us into the classes but we didn�t like to interrupt the children�s lessons, however, now our primary children wished we had taken him up on it. We also saw the neighbouring Reef Resort, it shares the same wonderful view and has very nice fales to stay in. It took 18months to build and has been open for just over a year. Charles and Matt took off with Kairos to go diving the island of Tu�ungasika, which is supposed to be the best coral diving in Vava�u. They said it was good, but not as good as Minerva Reef. Emma joined Alison, Warren and friends on Memphis, and showed them where Mariner�s Cave was and went snorkeling with them, she had a great afternoon and enjoyed being in adult company. They were glad they�d taken Em otherwise they said they wouldn�t have been able to find it. The rest of us enjoyed snorkeling in the bay and basking in the sunshine. On their return we invited Hazel and Bill from Liberation over for sultana scones with jam and cream (long life cream that is), it was good to see them again and to thank them for the delicious fish they�d given us for tea a week ago!Abby and Rebekah noticed a boat come into the bay with children on, and within minutes they were in the dinghy and over to say hello. It turned out that The Red Thread, had two little girls aged 5 and 8 and they were delighted to see other girls. They invited them onboard and immediately engaged them in games with their toys. After a tea of fried bacon, eggs and baked beans on freshly baked bread, we took off to the beach to light our evening fire. Matt took along a cloth to attach to a stick, dip in fuel and have as a torch � our children are pyromaniacs! However, I have to say it worked well. Tom and Emma invited all the boats in the bay to come to the fire and they came. Although the guitar came along too, we mostly chatted tonight, the fire burned well and everyone had fun. We thought Tom was doing his nightly fire dance, even though it was a little more exaggerated than usual, however, it turned out that he�d been bitten, he thinks by a centipede. He has two puncture marks about 1 cm apart on the edge of his foot, it bled and he was in pain, he said he saw a long worm-like thing with legs, disappearing after he was bitten. The fear of getting bitten, along with a rain squall, ended the beach party, but it was a good night. Rebekah�s friends, MeiMei and Linzi from Red Thread, plotted for her to sleep over on their boat and, as Matt and Emma have had sleep overs on Abbey�s boat Kairos before, Rebekah was keen to go, even though Abby didn�t want to. Tom has now taken paracetamol and antihistamine, hopefully the redness and swelling will have gone down by tomorrow, and he�ll be able to sleep tonight. I�m getting quite used to this lifestyle and the talk of carrying on to Fiji and Vanuatu like the other cruisers is very tempting � shame, we have to return to work to pay for this wonderful experience!
Joy
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