Well, the wind dropped a bit too much yesterday, but it meant that we had a lovely gentle sail along the steep cliffs of the northern side of Vava'u - green and wooded, very steep to, and not a single sign of habitation in sight. Then we turned into a huge fiord-like area, very calm and it has lots of little anchorages. We had the anchor down before sunset and the boat was completely still for the first time for weeks. In bed just after 8pm, and we slept until 7.30am so feel like new this morning.
Tomorrow (Mon) we have to go to the customs dock to check in, evidently a 3-hour process and there are about a dozen new arrivals so we expect it to take quite a while. Evidently there's room for about 3 boats on the dock, and the rest have to raft up to them, we'd rather not be the one against the huge black fenders of the dock designed for big ships!
This is the gathering place for all the boats we've met over the last months. Some take off for NZ from Fiji, but most from here. Luckily it's a huge area, lots of islands to explore so room for lots of boats.
We're now over the international date line - not geographically, but Tonga prefers to be on the same day as NZ and Oz. So instead of being 11 hrs behind GMT we are now 13 hrs ahead. Position 18 41 431 S and 174 01 764 W
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