Finally made it into The capital of Fiji! In good style too! We came through the reef and into the harbor under full sail.

Suva is the first large town we've been to all season.

We had a very good, if long day. We left Leleuvia at 0600 on the dot for our 55 mile passage. It was a great ocean sailing day. Sun, wind, blue water, we had it all. We averaged 5.5 knots and made the trip in 11 hours, tying up to a mooring off the town of Lami on the sw side of Suva Bay at exactly 1700. Good timing, since that’s just about “Charisma Time”. That gave us extra incentive to fold the sails and tidy up and we were comfortably sitting in the cockpit gazing across the bay, Charisma in hand, by 1730.

It feels a bit strange to be back in civilization. We can hear cars on the road and a generator on one of the little islets off in the distance. But we’re looking forward to visiting this largest of Fiji’s towns for a few days and thanks to our friends on Ladybug, we’re tucked into this really nice snug cove instead of the industrial area off downtown Suva where most folks anchor in mud. We definitely want to visit the area, especially see the Royal Suva Yacht Club, but we’ll do it by bus and enjoy our relative peace and quiet At our anchorage on this, the opposite side of the bay away from the industrial areas.

More tomorrow as we grab a bus into town and explore Fiji’s only really large, industrialized city.