Yup, that was the highlight of the day.

Oops, Ann saw this and said; “WHAT!!”, (with at least that many explanation points) and pointedly reminded me that the highlight of the day was the two loaves of bread she kneaded repeatedly and cooked. (Repeatedly is defined as twice for 15 minutes… a lot of kneading!) Well, what can I say. The “knew” headline should be “kneaded bread”.

Anyway, about that garbage. It’s been building up on the boat. Not to put too fine a point on it, but toilet paper, which we can’t just throw over the side like on the ocean, and other paper products. Ann cuts the plastic stuff into tiny pieces and stores it until we get to a place where there is a true waste disposal, but the paper stuff builds up.

So burning the garbage on the beach was our excuse to get off the boat today. It’s been pretty windy for the last two days and we have been boat bound, so any excuse to go ashore is a good one.

We go at low tide, dig a little hole, get some twigs and such from the jungle, add a little gasoline from the dinghy and voila – instant garbage dump fire. Burned down to just ashes. Once the tide comes in there will never be any sign that we were there/here.

OK, it’s an exciting life we lead, what can I say. Tomorrow looks to be a little more promising. After two days of wind in the low ’20s it’s supposed to drop to single digits for the next three days. We’re going to take advantage by paddleboarding, snorkeling, diving and whatever else we can do while we have calm weather.

Yay.

A little P.S. It’s fun to reconnect with folks that we’ve met “along the way”. Ed and Nila from Quixotic pulled into Fulunga today. We first met them two years ago in Tonga and haven’t seen them since then. What fun to see them today and they brought a special treat for the boats here. Fresh greens that they brought from the market at Suva. Most folks here, like us, have been away from stores for at least a couple weeks and are running out, or have run out of fresh veggies. Another part of the cruising culture that’s so fun – folks really go out of their way to do nice things for others. Thanks Ed and Nila, we had a salad and fresh eggplant today thanks to you!