Just easin’ down the west coast of the Yasawa Island Group in northwestern Fiji waters.

We’re roughly at 17 degrees 16 minutes and 177 degrees 07 minutes. We’re just off a little beach on the northwest side of the bay here on the north side of Waya Island. We were at Octopus Resort yesterday/last night ’round the other side, but the wind came up and forced us around to this side. Lucky us because it’s much nicer over here. Besides flat water instead of two foot waves, there’s no resort, just some stunning mountains that surround the little bay we’re in.

We’ve been day hopping with our friends John and Lisa on Orcinius. It’s also been nice that we’ve caught up with folks who we left Mexico with back in 2012. We had some nice catch up time with Don and Deb on Buena Vista and John and Pat on The Rose. We first met these guys in La Cruz, Mexico. Fun to catch up so many miles “down the road”.

OK, we just heard a whistle: it’s John and Lisa on Orcinius who are anchored about 60 feet away. “What!?” “Look at the moon rise”. WOW. It’s blood red rising out of the sea and reflecting off the still water. What a beautiful night after a couple days of rain and some lightning. Tonight there’s not a cloud to be seen and this amazing moon that is now 10 degrees above the horizon and has turned from red to orange.

We went snorkeling yesterday and today. Great coral, lots of fish. I think tomorrow we’re going to dive this area. It’s really surprisingly healthy looking coral.

Internet is not so good here, so no pics for a few days. We’ll try and post some when we can. At this point we’re looking to get into Denarau on the 20th, then resupply and look for a weather window to go back down to NZ.

That’s today’s plan.