Not a lot to report today. There’s a big high pressure system way south down by NZ that is causing high winds up here in Fiji. It’s something like a 1032 high which is compressing the trade winds, so we are sitting at anchor here in our little bay getting buffeted by 25 to 30 knot winds and the associated choppy water that goes with that. So…it’s a boat day.

Ann finished the special quilt she’s been making for the weaving ladies. More on that Monday when she presents it to them and we’ll have the appropriate pictures to post when we’re back in internet land. I’ll just say for now, it’s quite pretty and very creative.

I spent half the day processing pictures from yesterday’s event. I brought in the long zoom lens and got some really stunning portraits of folks and wanted to take the time to do them justice. It’s been worth it as they came out really well.

Tomorrow is church, so Ann is making a pasta salad to take in and share with our host family. We often feel like such a burden and want to bring something. The reality is that they love to have us as their guest and cook a ton of food for Sunday feast anyway, but we want to make the effort.

We’re running down to our very last favorite supplies. From here on its canned and dry food unless we can trade for some fish and/or veggies. The villagers are very generous with the fruit (bananas in particular, but we get papayas as well) but suffice to say we’re going on a diet. We’re down to about six cans of beer, a couple bottles of wine, two carrots, six potatoes, some eggs and a couple apples. We won’t starve as we have canned/dried foods that would last for months, but dinner will certainly be more of a challenge to make taste “fresh”. Tonight I cooked the last two eggplants with 1/3 of a pumpkin the villagers gave us in a coconut/curry sauce and we had that over rice. Ann’s comment was she was surprised at how good it tasted.

At this point we’re guessing we’ll likely stay here another couple weeks (visit the other village across the lagoon – explore a bit once the wind drops) and then take another week or so to visit a couple islands on the way back to Savusavu to resupply – then back out for some more adventure.