[password] 1116
[position] 17 40S 168 11E
[speed] 0knts
[heading] 0T
[status] We spent 6 days in Port Vila on a Yachting World mooring to get fresh provisions, fill up with diesel, check in with Immigration for our one month visa plus 4 month extension, obtain a required cruising permit replacement for the one we received in Aneityum, and a little internet access. We sailed about 15 nm and anchored near shore by Paul's Reef on the SW side of Efate.

We dived on Paul's Reef (17 39.876S, 168 10.860E) where there was a plastic milk bottle tied to a mooring line for dinghies [I don't know how to list the position in the web site dive section]. There was little live coral but a fairly good variety of sea life. Local dive shops bring their guests here and the fish seem tame. The water was clear and calm despite a 15-20 kt SE wind (because we were in the lee of Efate).
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