From Niue -

I was disappointed today, they have fresh, but it's so expensive! Still really happy about the shopping and provisions we did in Panama, but we don't have fresh and we're getting close to the end of our monthly rations. I hear Tonga is cheaper, but less able to find anything much in stores there. $4 for lettuce was our best, so we had salad tonight. $8.80/kg for apples, $7/kg for carrots, $3.90 for a 12 oz. can of spaghetti sauce, $5.60 for a 1 kg bag of sugar, $13.00 for a 12 ounce can of lamb tongues (wonder how well these things sell), 5kg frozen french fries discounted from $20 to $16 and a few other unaffordable items. We'll break down again tomorrow and get some fresh stuff, but it's going to add up. And it's 3% more to use a credit card. We don't have New Zealand money. And there's no ATM here to get local money, and the banks don't change money, only the rental car agency will change money for 8% or a total of $30 for as much as you want. So, the rental car agency is our best bet to change money. 

Tomorrow we'll rent a car, go explore some caves, launch the motorcycle, drop off our 4 bags of garbage that we've been collecting for the past month without a place to burn or drop it off. We have a key for the "yacht club" warm showers, I think that'll happen tomorrow too!! It's a beautiful place, the people are very friendly, it's great to check it out!!

We are on a mooring, lots of deep coral for anchoring. It's really rolling here in the anchorage! I feel bad for the mono-hulls, I've been watching them, they are really bouncing around! Then you take the dinghy to the concrete stairs, try to offload with it bouncing up and down the wall as you try to offload kids onto wet stairs. Then they have a lift and you hook up your dinghy and haul it out into the parking lot. It's an interesting process. I think the anchorage is made worse by the current winds, maybe in a day or two things'll calm down a bit. If not, going to keep us on our toes every time we try to offload!!

Goodnight!!

Shannon