Interesting Weather

0800 position 17-08S 177-13E. At anchor in Vuata Bay, Naviti Island, Fiji

We jumped a couple of miles south to Vuata Bay yesterday. We found another resort ashore that looked like it was designed by the same architect who did the Korovou Eco-Tour Resort. This resort had a raft with a high diving board on it moored off of the beach. The rest of the crew dinghied in to check it out and found the resort open but empty. They are fully booked in a week though.

I think we are getting spoiled here in the southern Yasawas. Each anchorage is much like the last, a protected bay, a beautiful white sand beach, a resort ashore, decent snorkeling near the boat... There hasn't been much variety, but that is changing. There is some kind of weather system that will be passing through over the next couple of days that will make life interesting. The forecast varies daily but it looks like a bit of wind and swell out of the western quadrant that will make these west facing anchorages a bit dicey. Tonight the wind is forecast to swing west of south accompanied by a good sized southwest swell. We've picked out our hidey-hole for tonight, a north facing anchorage in a deep bay on the next big island to the south, Waya.

Our weather system started making its presence known yesterday. It rained all afternoon and evening and blew pretty hard last night, but the wind was out of the east so we were fine in Vuata Bay. Some of the gusts were up near thirty knots last night so Rob let out a bit more chain and turned on the GPS to make sure we weren't dragging anchor.

We made the best of yesterday afternoon's rainy weather for a movie matinee in the Van Diemen saloon theater complete with buttered popcorn. Eric chose "Raising Arizona" for the feature film.

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