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The trade winds have set-in, lovely 10-15 knot breeze from the SSE, with a little swell still that has us rolling around a little. We're making 7-8 kts on a direct course for Navula Pass, the entrance into the protected waters to the West of Fiji. However conditions are pretty variable so who knows how long it'll last? Still, we had a beautiful day under spinnaker yesterday, a very relaxed night with jib and main (watched another episode of Game Of Thrones!), then back to spinnaker this morning. We had hoped we might arrive early enough on Monday to clear-in with Fiji Customs, but it's looking like we'll arrive in the evening sometime. So we'll spend the night anchored in the quarantine area outside Vuda Point Marina until Tuesday morning, meet the authorities, then it's an hour down to Denerau Marina and the official end of our journey from New Zealand! It's *SO* warm now, with the sun almost unbearble. All the fleeces are long gone, and we're all wearing shorts and T-shirts and slathering on sun-screen. So can't complain :-)
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