Nuie

We arrived in Nuie on Tuesday evening just as the sun went down. We had a nice sail here from Palmerston with the wind direcly behind us and a bit too light much of the time, but we got to try out our new spinnaker and have a reasonably easy passage. In Palmerston we (well, Kellie) decided to not stop at Nuie, but on our way we calculated our travel time to Tonga and realized that due to crossing the international dateline (Tonga is in "tomorrow") and the light wind we wouldn't arrive until sometime Friday night - and you can't check into Tonga on the weekend... and can't get off the boat until you're checked in... so here we are. We'd planned to only stop for 2-3 days so we'd arrive in Tonga on Monday or Tuesday, but now we've heard about a market on Friday, and a festival on Saturday... so who knows when we'll depart.

Today we rented a 15 passenger van and 16 cruisers from 4 boats packed in with picnic lunches, snorkeling gear and cameras and we went off exploring the island, it's beaches and some fantastic caves.

More later.

-Pete