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[status] After spending one night in Port Vila we decided that was enough and headed out and into Havana Harbour. This is a large harbour with the mainland on one side and two islands on the other side. Quite a few resorts along the coast line as well as villages. Our first night anchorage we were plagued by large flying ants, the same as we had in Fiji. So it was another night behind closed doors!! We have had a leak coming in through our cabin ceiling and Glen thought it could be coming in through the saloon windows. After pulling our ceiling out he found the problem to be where the track was screwed onto the upper deck for the new clears around the helm station. This is the second leak we have had from this job. Very annoying.
While Glen was doing this Ben, our Opua to Tonga crew man, was doing some fix it work on the davit winches. He was being ever so careful not to loose anything over the side but the inevitable happened and he ended up diving 26 metres down looking for the lost piece. No luck unfortunately, but they have since made it work again. Never a dull moment living on board! We spend two nights on the inside of Lelepa Island. When we anchored we had 0.6 - 1.0 metres under our keels, but it was low tide. Check out Google earth to see this anchorage - it was truly beautiful. Some good snorkelling to be had there as well. While we were there it seemed every day there was a pilgrimage that butterflies took from one side of the bay to the other. Hundreds of them flew past us on there journey. Lovely sight. We have come back into Havana Harbour and anchored off The Havana Resort. We had dinner there with Ben and Helen. Fantastic service and food. We as boaties were welcomed warmly by the staf
f and were very accommodating when we required transport to and from the airport. Dropped Ben and Helen at the airport yesterday and picked up Kristy at the same time. We now have the pleasure of her company until next Sunday. Looking forward to a good week.[END]