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[status] Thanks Patricia at Gulf Harbour Radio for the tip with getting a better signal out from our SSB, I will try the ‘talking sideways’ thing, MALibu also mentioned this, but I didn’t take it on board, as Vaughan had told me to pt the mic right up against my mouth, so I thought I was doing it right. Right, here’s what we’ve been up too… We’ve walked around Neiafu, the Vava’u groups main hub. Gone to the market and picked up eggs, beautiful finger banana’s, tomatoes, and pineapple – with our purchase the egg lady gave us free some fresh rosemary (which we used on our butterflied lamb that night yum!) and from the banana and pineapple lady we got what Sasha believes are those scarily hot chilli peppers – as in the world famous, don’t eat them they will kill you – chilli peppers, they look like mini red capsicums – Sasha tried the tiniest sliver of one the other day and her mouth was burning for hours!! We think the Banana and Pineapple lady played one
hell of a joke on us! We also went in for some drinks one night to Bounty Bar, and after that we headed to Aquarium bar and restaurant – where there was some scary ‘dancing’ going on, long, blurry story short, Sasha had a pretty sore arm the next day due to one local woman’s ‘scary’ dance moves. Suffice to say Sasha will not be partaking in the Neiafu Rum Punch ever AGAIN! Luckily Emily a nurse from another boat anchored in the harbour had a look at the arm and made sure no major damage had been done - whew! Apart from that we ate like kings today, banana pancakes, and yummy banana smoothies, we snorkeled in Swallows Cave which was amazing, and then we went fishing to see if we could catch something from the workup’s happening just by our anchorage, but no luck yet. Sorry we haven’t been keeping up with the YIT updates, we will try to be better from now one.

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