From Musket Cove, we travelled northwards to explore the Yasawa Island Group, in the company of kid boats Miles Away, Cinnamon and Wild Thing. Highlights here were the uninhabited island of Navadra, Lo’s tea shop and doughnuts on Nanuya Island, dancing in Somosomo and mocktails in Octopus resort, Waya Island.
With our time in Fiji running out and cyclone season approaching, we had a quick detour to Namotu Island for some epic snorkelling and then back to the main island of Viti Levu. We checked into Vuda marina to refuel/ re-water, to prep for our onward travels and to formally check out of Fiji.
Fiji marked the end of our Pacific kid boat flotilla with some families selling-up for new adventures ashore, others heading to New Zealand, some heading for Asia and a few of us with plans to spend cyclone season in Australia. There were therefore many sad goodbyes after an epic year, sailing, diving, foiling, snorkelling, hiking and fixing things together. We had shared moments of indescribable joy, and other periods with shite weather, dragging anchors, catastrophic gear failure, running aground, illness, relationship struggles, and the horrors of boat school!!!
Already feeling a bit emotional about the end of this magnificent era, we were undone by the Isa Lei goodbye, sung beautifully by the marina team as we untied from the dock for our final sail in Fijian waters.
Sailing Mowzer 