Evening Star

Today was some final preparation before departure like flushing the outboard, tying down the little dinghy and topping up the water tanks. Have to refill one of the LPG tanks tomorrow as we ran out wh ...

We found out that the Vuda Boat Shed offers a seafood platter on Sundays for $25 so after a load of laundry dad and I went there for lunch. The platter was a nice range of seafood prepared in various ...

Another lazy day with rain. Went to the Vuda Boat House restaurant for dinner and we both had a really good meal and split a pitcher of Planters Punch.

Another rainy day, but we got the deck washed down and the tanks refilled. Found out that checking out tomorrow would cost an extra $500 or so. After hearing that we decided to postpone to Monday, aft ...

Today was our final shop before we head for New Caledonia on Saturday, so we took a taxi to Latoka and went to the market to get eggs, fresh fruit and veggies. After that, we went to 3 different super ...

Today we did a stock take of all the food in the boat and got the inflatable dinghy let down and rolled up. The stock take took us until just after lunch time. Current plan is for a Saturday departure ...

Today we filled up the fuel tank using the diesel jugs. In total we put 240L into the tank which was 3 cycles of emptying the jugs into the tank and getting them refilled at the pump. Starting to get ...

Lazy rainy day. Dad and I just stayed inside all day and either read or went on our phones.

Once again not much today. Dad got me to give him a haircut, just to shorten things and cut down the fly-aways. Other than that, still waiting for the front to come through.

Today and probably the next couple of days are downtime days as we wait for a weather system to pass through after which we will expect to be heading off towards New Caledonia if the weather is right. ...