Fiji is Marvelous!

Marvelous weather!!!! We arrived from rainy, rainy, cool Calgary to 30 degrees C, with clear skies and no wind. We have been using all of our outdoor spaces - the flybridge, the back cockpit, the boat deck - you name it. Star gazing in perfectly calm evenings, so calm that the stars reflect clearly in the water below. Cassie is with us for two weeks and she is soaking it all up. We arrived at 5:30 am on June 21 and used this day to provision the boat with fresh fruit and vegis and get our clearance papers from Lautoka (we rented a car to do all of this). The next morning we departed from Denarau and headed for Musket Cove, a boat hang out, this to give Cassie a short distance to get back into the swing of boating again. the day was perfect, we didn't even splash the boat on the way over. We met up with Dietmar and Kurt on Carinthia and got all of the good places to go for diving, as they have been traveling around during our trip back to Canada. We all did a dive on the Pinnacle the next day and a first for us was sighting a Lion Fish swimming! The fish was huge - about basketball size and so beautiful - his lacey fins spread wide, but so dangerous - we don't bug him...he doesn't bug us. It was good to be in the water again. The boat group put on a bon fire on the beach at 6:00 pm, it is a tidal affair - the tide goes out enough to expose a beautiful mound of sand in the bathtub warm, blue water, they build a fire and everybody brings their beverage of choice and visit and party on the sand until the tide comes in again and extinguishes the fire several hours after the start. Very unique indeed. We only have 12 hours of daylight right now, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Today we are on our way to a place called Robinson Cruso, we'll see what kind of fun we can have there. Again we have another beautiful day, a bit more breezy than before no big deal.

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