Yasawa Island Group -

Just a super nice place to stop!  After a great nights sleep one of the locals, Moses, paddled out to our boat and invited us to his families portion of the island.  Beautiful sand beaches, with rolling grass covered hills. We went in to the shore in the morning, and met up with Moses, Luci, and other members of the family. They grow all their own food, and catch fish whenever they desire. They live very simply, and their big smiles show their true happiness.  We will definitely need to go back there sometime, and spend some real time visiting.

While we were there Moses unfortunately cut his heel pretty badly.  Shannon ended up putting on some plastic skin, and throwing in a stitch!  And then there was the quarter of a bed sheet that we left for making bandages.

We are now on our 3 to 4 day trip to Vanuatu, and are going to try to do it only with the Genoa to keep the mainsail from getting to much stress from the 30-knot winds. Last time it popped out we were double reefed and in the 20 to 30 knot wind range. So the plan is to take it slow and not hurt anything.

We are having a difficult time connecting to SailMail sometimes because there are limited relay stations out here, so there may be a few days of quiet from us.

Courage