We set off on Thursday morning to head south to the Maskelyne islands. We arrived at Uliveo island on the afternoon. Too late to go ashore.That didnt stop two locals we had meet before (Stewart and Philip) from coming out in their boats to great us.
On Friday we first went to visit the school. Gina and Alex our previous crew had left us books and pencils to add to what we already had.we also took the boats guitar as i still haven’t learned to play it. Hopefully the kids will be better at it then me.
While I went back to Imagine to load the dinghy with more things to donate, B enjoyed talking with Phillips wife who was patiently preparing the dying colors and dip the hand rolled bananas leaves that will be used to craft braided mats and baskets.
Next we handed out the last of the pillows and kids clothes that Kmart gave us. We also had some adults clothes and a couple of blankets. We left Stewart (the islands tour guide) a small anchor for his boat. We could see he was useing an old meat grinder as his anchor. Im not too sure how well it worked.
After lunch we motored across to the neighbouring island Awei and we left a jar of honey that we are not going to be able to take into Fiji, a hammock and some more rope.
This morning we set sail again. The sun hadn’t quite made the horizon when we hauled anchor. The light rain made it a hazy morning. Heading south to Port Vila, the sun has came out making it a warm trip, but by evening we were greated by two squalls. As it got dark we had to rely totally on our instruments, chartplotter, radar and AIS to see where we were going and see small fishing boats. Very few have lights on them, but you may get a glimpse of a touch light (If they have one). It was 1am by the time we glided through the dark to our anchorage.
