Wednesday 18th. As the sun rose we followed Honeycomb (a catamaran) out of the bay and headed to the Yasawa island. With the wind almost behind us we left the main sail down and just used the headsail. We were surprised that it didn’t take long before we overtook Honeycomb. Catamaran are usually faster then monohulls going down wind.
We had the easterly swell and wind behind us all the way to Yasawa, but when we went around the top of the island we discovered there was a south westerly swell coming in the west side of the island. The low island didn’t provide a lot of shelter from the easterly wind, which meant the bay wasn’t the most comfortable place to stay.
The wind seems to funnel between Fijis’ two main islands Vanau Levu and Viti Levu, blowing a constant strong easterly wind through the 6 or 7 Yasawa group of islands. We spent Thursday there before heading south to get out of the wind and swell.
Naviti island was where the wind started to ease off so we stopped in a sheltered bay at Korokulu point. The passing ferry stops in the bay to drop-off and pick up guests from the resort. The guests are transferred from the ferry to the resorts dinghy, which takes them ashore.
On Saturday we went ashore and talked to some resort guests before going for a walk along the beach. Again the swell came in the bay at high tide. We moved to the south end of the bay for a little more shelter overnight.
