A Little Rain

After a bit more running around in Neiafu yesterday we left the mooring around 11:00 and headed out to sail down to Tapana Island. For the fist time we had to motor out of the harbour, no wind! Once we cleared the harbour the sails went up and we rifted slowly south. As always, the winds shifted around but with Jan on the helm and Tony tweaking we managed to keep steady. The weather was gorgeous so we stopped at Eukafa Island for lunch and a snorkel. Jan went, Tony decided not to. It was her first time snorkelling since they went to Fiji a few years ago. The visibility wasn't too bad and lots of fish and coral but not as good as the last time we went. Still, it was refreshing. When we were heading back to the dinghy we saw a couple of other people swimming against the current in the pass so we offered them a tow which they seemed to be pretty happy about. Mother and son off a Moorings charter. We managed a nice gentle sail the rest of the way to Tapana and picked up a mooring by around 16:00. Jan and Tony borrowed a cruising guide and charts from Janet and Colin and before they arrived and they had marked a few places to go. We managed two of them. Despite predictions, it rained in the night so once again, 02:00 I'm up, putting the enclosure on, pulling the bung out of the dinghy and generally getting really, really wet. As the saying goes; Into every life a little rain must fall, but why oh why at 02:00??

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