Fiji was magic, after our clearing in we made our way to Musket Cove Yacht club and Marina. It is on Malolo Island and is the only resort that is geared up for the yachts. This is excellent as all the yachties can enjoy the facilities of the resort and the resort guests love visiting the boats and talk to all the sailors.
Our arrival coincide with the 28 th annual Fiji Regatta week at Musket cove. Steve from s/v Heat Wave welcomed us when we arrived and it was nice to see him again after leaving Tonga. We decided to moored the boat at the marina for a change, as well we had quite a few chores to do and it would be much easier. It took us 2 days to wash the boat, do all the laundry, finally fixed the windvane and clean the bottom of the boat.
We enjoyed the bustle of people around and met lots of nice people. We finally had the pleasure of meeting Steve's partner Nicky who manage a few days off from work to visit. Both Steve and Nicky had to return to Australia, but Steve would return in a few days.
The opening night of the regatta was good, all the different nationalities together was great. Each country's citizens were called up to sing their national anthem. Dinis decided to support his Brazilian friend Joao (the only Brazilian at the regatta) to sing the Brazilian national anthem, but they settle on 'The girl of Ipanema' instead as Dinis being Portuguese do not know the anthem and Joao could not remember it. We met Diane and Doug from s/v Seafarer 4 that night and had a great time.
We took part in a few of the activities over the next few days. Diane and Doug's daughter arrived visiting them and they invited us for a trip to one of the motus where Doug and Joao will try to do some surfing and the rest of us some snorkeling. It was a very nice day and we met some more friends of Diane and Doug on m/v Catatac.
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