After a relatively bumpy ride, we are finally approaching our destination. We will arrive later at night tonight and may heave to until morning light. The wind is finally starting to come along behind us, so the waves are fewer broadsides and more angled from behind (smoother). We’ve taken some pretty big waves over the roofs, woken a few sleeping children on the living room couch because the hatch is open for airflow and a wave breaks in. I've cleaned the new solar panels a couple of times, but they are covered with salt again. We are in need of some good rain now to wash all this salt off the boat! On our first day out from Fiji a big wave popped up our pulpit seat and threw it overboard. The stainless steel pulpit is still fine, but the plastic seat is gone. Courage has hopes of making on out of one of my cutting boards. He made the last one too, so we are optimistic we can repair it.
After 13 days out from American Samoa, we are so excited to be making it finally to Vanuatu. Can't wait, counting down!! Going to have a lot of cleaning up to do once we arrive, many things have fallen from their heights, as gravity is prone to do to things. Fortunately we've otherwise sustained minimal damages. Our bananas are turning yellow and Valiant is very excited by that prospect. Cuties (tangerines) and bananas seem to be his favorite every fruit!
Our two buddy boats are about 40 miles behind us. They plan to go over the north side of Aneityum to check out a harbor for later distribution, and then meet us down on the south side of the island for our official check-in. Most things are worked out nicely with customs and immigration, but apparently there's a guy from immigration that would like us to charter him a flight so he can meet us in Aneityum and check us in since it's not an official port. Have to see how that works out after we arrive.
So, one more day and things should get interesting!
Shannon
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