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Monday, 11 July 2016

To Makogai with Sea Mercy - In Pictures

I'm Once we were finished in Savusavu we headed down to Makogai to help out with Sea Mercy. Liz has written about our experience on the blog already and here are some photos.

Sea Mercy: Sailing with a Greater Purpose

Coming into the anchorage (Miriam Wolff photo)

The guys driving us down to the village in the longboat

Some of the damage is evident even before you get to the village.

The school is now in the tents

The school is now in the blue tents and families live in the white tents.

Brendan and Johnathan helping clear the roof.

Cleaning up the school site.

Recovering some of the lumber.

Deanne from Exodus clearing a site and recovering usable material.

Victoria and Johnathan hauling recovered lumber.

Victoria making flat breads with Wendy from SV Outsider.

Even Benjamin was helping - here being helped by Sadie from SV Carpe Diem

Johnathan painting signs in English and Fijian,

Johnathan and I laying the floor for the new school

Always a bit of time for rugby coaching, (SV Exodus photo)

My many helpers.

Tim (Exodus) and James (Carpe Diem) moving the new water tank. (SV Exodus photo)

Fixing the Sea Mercy watermaker.

The spot on the beach where you can get 3G. (SV Exodus photo)

Our first outside Sevusevu. Normally this is down in the chief's house or meeting hall but Makongai's meeting house was knocked down.

Benjamin sleeping through sevusevu

Sunday cricket.

and, of course, volleyball

Shade !

Victoria organising tools in the village.

Too wet to work at the worksite so time to go spearfishing,

And our course, time to fix the carburetor on our outboard. A little short on parts so I epoxied part of it together.

Up the rigging.

and out with the spinnaker pole swing again.

The anchorage

Fluenta parked in Exodus's sunset again (SV Exodus photo)

Back to Minerva Reef - Pictures

It was nice to be back to Minerva Reef after missing it on last year's passage north. Liz wrote about our stay there here and here are some pictures:

The view at Minerva Reef

Going for a bit of a paddle

Benjamin checking out the booby that stopped by to visit a few times. The bird is a long way from any land !

Our friends on Vareki weighing anchor. It was a bit rolly with 5.3m swell outside the anchorage. Good thing their boat is steel with the anchor swinging like it was.

SV Code Blue pitching in the swell.

Coral (Miriam Wolf photo)

Miriam jumps in

On the reef at low tide (Miriam Wolf photo)

Giant Clams (Miriam Wolf photo)

And, of course, it would be boring if nothing to fix.

Making German Pretzels on a stormy day.

Time to cool off.

Prototype spinnaker pole swing.

Having the neighbours over for drinks. Steve and Judy from SV Code Blue.

Fish filleting lesson for Miriam.

Savusavu in Pictures

Liz has written about our nice stay in Savsavu here but now you can find some pictures below:

Back at the Copra Shed. Treating ourselves to a few days at the dock (SV Exodus Photo)

and we catch up with Exodus !!

At the Copra Shed

It was a rather social time: here back our favourite restaurant in Savusavu, the Hidden Paradise, with Exodus and Breeze.

The kid's table with Exodus and Breeze

The kids, ably helped by Miriam, treated up to an anniversary dinner again.

Liz and Deanne went running most days. The view overlooking Savusavu (SV Exodus Photo)

Miriam and Liz doing morning yoga.

Shredding coconut for dinner

And, of course, more maintenance. Appears my young assistant is bored by the process.

and time for school as well ...

Auckland to Savusavu in Pictures

Liz has written almost daily about the passage from Auckland to Savusavu in the blog (starting here) but at long last here are some photos from the passage: