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[status] We’ve been really busy… busy KITESURFING at The. Best. Spot. In. The. World! It’s a 15 minute dinghy ride from Kenutu Island, we park up the tenders on a little sand island (aka Kite Island), there is miles and miles of aqua blue ankle to waist deep water, there’s ramps, and flat water, and a sand bar to jump over. There’s even a spot with deeper water for jumping beginners. It’s better than Aitutaki!!!! I know, that is a big statement to make, but IT IS!! Because there is NO ONE THERE!!!! We had the place to ourselves day after day, and finally when a boatload of about 5 kiters did turn up, they pumped up their kites, and we’re gone again in ten minutes as they headed off on their down winder. Awesome! The wind conditions have been perfect for Sasha to get her backrolls more consistent (awesome photo’s to follow on facebook when we get internet access - and yes the arm feels a lot better) and to start learning jumping on her switch side – so she can
get onto those Jump Transitions. Mike’s been doing massive jumps, tweaking it out, and also jumping on his switch side. He’s also been carving it up on the surfboard. It is such an amazing place, we are thinking about staying in Tonga longer, and catching up with the kiting crew coming up from NZ on the 1st of July.
We’re heading back to Neiafu today, we’ve run out of fresh vegetables, but we still have banana’s, so many in fact that Sasha made a delicious flour and sugar free Banana Cake with Salted Date-Caramel icing. We still haven’t caught a fish, go figure!! Warwick and Layne are keen to watch the rugby, so we’ll head into Bounty Bar for another All Black WIN tonight.

[speed] 6knots

[heading] 20M

[weather] Sunny and warm, with a few cirrus clouds about – there was about 12-14 knots of good nor’easterly breeze for the most part of today. Baro: 1014.

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