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Thursday 8th August

It's a good job we do these blogs. It's the only way we know what day it is!

First thing this morning Andrew went up the mast and fitted the new pulley and halyard and reset the staysail while there was no wind. I'm beginning to think he likes it up there - he went up 3 times! It scares the bejeebers out of me whilst I'm left hanging onto the rope that is making sure he won't fall - well too far that is!

After breakfast it was off to smelly, dirty, crowded, noisy (a city) Suva. The bus trip as usual was very amusing, the traffic terrible - almost as bad as Auckland and the bus driver thought he was in a xbox game, tearing off down the road, forcing his way around the roundabout then blaring his horn for others to get out his way. We got some fruit and veg then got out of there. This afternoon we went back to Lami to do the rest of the shopping.

This evening we treated ourselves to dinner out. We went to the yacht club where there was a couple of guys playing 80s music so we had a nice meal and live entertainment to boot.

Tomorrow more maintenance work on the boat and some general cleaning. Due to lack of wind we will probably set off from here Saturday to go to the other side ... ie the dry side of Fiji. Today though we had our first bit of sunshine for what seems like an awful long time!

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