GPS: 19 47.861S 174 21.285W
Run: 44.1nm (79.8km)
We spent two nights at Ha’afeva, swimming, snorkelling and took a walk around part of the island. Stella captured some singing from one of the churches on her phone.
Weather has been changing. Yesterday we decided to come to Pangai as there has been some weather indications that we may get some higher winds. We are semi sheltered from the SE winds here. When we arrived yesterday there were 5 boats anchored. Later in the day they all left heading up to Vava’u, but according to the weather reports we’ve seen it indicates that winds are likely to be stronger up there. A couple of other yachts arrived today, one was Essence (Stu, Pamela and Steve from Tauranga) which we’ve caught up with a couple of times. The other was Julo who we met in Nuku’alofa a German couple who have sailed down from Europe through the Panama Canal and spent some time touring around NZ before leaving for Tonga. We are all heading up to Vava’u when we can. We are just keeping an eye on the weather.
Hannah and Tony went for a swim this morning and went under the boat to clean the forward facing sonar transducer from the barnacles and other sea life attached to it so hopefully we will now be able to see bommies in front of us although good sets of lookout eyes are a must.
Stella still struggles with some of our expressions – the one yesterday was “just like a bought one”. She also still doesn’t know why we are looking for the “pigs” to hang the washing out! A quiet day, some chores this morning then a walk around Pangai this afternoon. Just relaxing before dinner then watching Game of Thrones. Good night from us all