Sunday morning we headed south again. The chart showed two little islands that were out of the wind and should give us protection from both the south westerly and the easterly swells. Vanu Livu and Navadra island looked ideal, but as we got closer the south westerly swell turned more westerly. When we got into the bay there was a small swell finding it’s way around the island and into the bay. We dropped anchor anyway as we were hot and wanted a swim. By the time the anchor was set we were surrounded by eight black tip reef sharks ranging from 1 to 1.3 meter long. That was when we realised we weren’t really that hot and didn’t need a swim. They circled Imagine for about half an hour. We have swam in bays with one or two reef shark there, but eight was too many. We hauled anchor and headed further south to Malolo Lailai island (opposite Musket Cove marina far enough from the crowd). We have been here many times before and knew it is a good anchorage.
Monday morning we dinghied across to Musket Cove marina to do drop off the laundry. When we got back we cleaned the hull (for NZ biosecurity) . We went back to the Marina for lunch, picked up the laundry and filled the jerrycans with fuel. We spent the afternoon relaxing.
