We’re in Bounty territory, as in Captain Bligh. Not that I’m even close to that sort, just sayin’.

We left lovely Namuka- I-Lau this morning. Anchor’s up at 0830 and out the pass. A quick 12 or so miles (plus at least 2 more just going through the lagoon inside the reef) to Komo Island where we dropped anchor around 1130. On the way we got a radio call from Orcinius asking what we were thinking about having for dinner. Huh? We haven’t thought of it. “Oh”, they said. “We just caught a big Mahi Mahi so were thinking of fish fillet in cream sauce. Oh, yeah – we’re in paradise. We brought a mung bean salad. Some really nice folks we met on a yacht named Ohyra (I know I’ve spelled it wrong) told us how mung beans sprout and make a great salad when nothing else will stay fresh. There were right. We’re now having fresh sprout salads every day or two. Fun!

Ann and Lisa went out for a paddleboard/kayak expedition while John worked on Orcinius and I, um, napped all day. Yes, I have a nasty cold picked up on Fulunga. It’s one of those “just have to wait out all the symptoms” kind of things. I’m now on the still stuffy and starting to cough stages. Bleah!

Komo island is just a stop-over for us to break a long day into two short ones. Our real goal is Oneata tomorrow which is another 20 miles. So, we’ll leave at 0830 again and head out. The weather looks pretty good all week so we’ll probably stay there a day or maybe two then head to Nairai to reunite with the finders of our bottle while Orcinius heads north and we both meet back in Savusavu for resupply in a week. At least that’s today’s plan.

As they say here, these plans are set in sand.