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Robinson Crusoe, Fiji
Scream spent two great weeks anchored off Robinson Crusoe Resort in Fiji. This resort is run by a former cruiser and is cruiser friendly. They serve set-menu, buffet style meals at 1pm and 7pm daily. There is no menu, you eat what they cook. Lunch is F$10 and dinner F$15. On Wednesday and Saturday evenings […]
Diving
People often ask us if we're SCUBA divers and we always say we're happy snorkelling. It's true that we both enjoy floating on the surface, watching the fish and coral going by below us. And we both do a little freediving, Steven particularly. We've been lots of places that offered SCUBA courses, but it always […]
Fiji Waypoints
We've compiled this set of waypoints (.zip) from various sources on our trip around Fiji. We started in Savu Savu, travelled counter clockwise three quarters of the way around Vanua Levu, across the north and west sides of Viti Levu, and into the Yasawas. We do not have waypoints for the rest of Fiji, so […]
Cruising with a rowing dinghy
Almost all cruising boats have dinghies with gasoline outboards. Maybe one boat in twenty rows their dinghy. We've been living aboard full time, mostly at anchor and mostly in the tropics for going on four years. So we have a few thoughts to share. If you're going to row your dinghy, you'll need a dinghy […]
Catching rain
We've been catching rain to fill our water tanks on Scream for two years now. We've actually caught rain about a dozen times, and we've tried about another dozen times when it didn't rain enough. Rain water accounts for about half of our annual water, and most of our water while cruising. We take on […]
Denarau
In many ways Port Denarau marina in Fiji is the best marina we have ever visited. Denarau is a tour ship wharf with an upscale mall co-located with a marina. There are a half dozen restaurants, a grocery, drug store, and a full set of marine services, including a 20 tonne travel lift. These services […]
Yaqaga
The island of Yaqaga, pronounced and sometimes misspelled as Yanqanga, is the most beautiful place where we have been in Fiji. Yaqaga has small but good anchorage near the eastern end of the north shore at 16 34.71S 178 36.81E. We anchored there in 15m, sand bottom. There is excellent shelter from the south, some […]
Palmlea
Joe and Julie, the proprietors of Palmlea farms, are among the nicest and most helpful people we have met on our travels. Palmlea is a tiny resort, with a restaurant, swimming pool, and dinghy dock. They are very welcoming to visiting boats. The anchorage is an enormous roadstead, with depths of 2 to 10 meters […]
Searching for Vegetables - Visiting Visoqo
Things were getting desperate. It had been a few weeks since we'd seen a vegetable market and even then it had been poorly stocked. We were down to an onion, a potato, some dried out chillies and a couple of sad tomatoes. We needed vegetables. Armed with a set of GPS waypoints and a 20-year […]