Uoleva Photo Log

October 7-13, 2014

We stayed here about a week, and I loved this place. I think it was the endless white sand beach that hooked me.

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Logbook – October 7, 2014 (Pangai to Uoleva)

Passage Log Highlights

• 1128 Engines on
• 1137 Depart
• 1254 Arrive Uoleva

Daily Notes

• Check-out Pangai. Find the “big store”
• Dinner w/ Iguana on Exodus. Yummy spicy tuna rolls

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Logbook – October 8, 2014 (Uoleva)

Daily Notes

• T/Jack – spearfish all day at the pass
• A/B – build a house on the beach
• D – falls off paddle board – ashore for a run

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Email to family and friends dated October 8, 2014

Subject: Exodus – Uoleva

After a quick domestic check in and check out at the capital “city” of Pangai on the island of Lifuka, we stopped at the island just south called Uoleva, and we’ve been here a couple days. The weather has been pretty crappy, and it’s supposed to stay this way for several more days as we have the South Pacific Convergence Zone parked north of us and a weak low developing south of us. It’s putting a damper on snorkeling and running, but certainly not spearfishing. Tim’s been having a lot of fun with Jack from s/v Iguana, and they go out for several hours every day. Since we have tons of fish already, they have set their sights on only the big prizes. The boys aren’t letting the weather slow them down either. Uoleva is a small island with white sand beach around the entire perimeter, and yesterday they went and started building a fort, no, more like a house. They were pretty involved in the project and Tim had to whistle them home for dinner at dusk. They are missing other kid boats, though, so fortunately a boat we met in Pago Pago is in the area and are planning to come to this anchorage today, so I’m sure they’ll be a little more motivated to finish schoolwork quickly.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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Logbook – October 9, 2014 (Uoleva)

Daily Notes

• Boys to the beach right after school
• S/v Wildlife here. kai came over to say hi

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Logbook – October 10, 2014 (Uoleva)

Daily Notes

• D – long walk on the beach, scary dogs
• Re-anchored Exodus – boys rebuild fort. S/v Wildlife joins them on the beach
• T/Jack – spearfish. Tuna & Grouper. Camille cooks dinner for us. Nice end to the evening on the net (like old times)

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Logbook – October 11, 2014 (Uoleva)

Daily Notes

• Boys – no school. Built another fort on the beach with Kai (S/V Wildlife)
• T/Jack – spearfish 5 miles away at pinnacles. Big grouper.

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Logbook October 12, 2014 (Uoleva)

Daily Notes

• T – defrost the fridge
• D – cleaned shower/made tortillas
• D/T – snorkle on reef off sw tip of Uoleva – colorful hard & soft coral
• Drinks on the beach w/ Iguana & Wildlife
• Boys – dinghy surf with Kai and Dior

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Email to family and friends dated October 12, 2014

Subject: Exodus – Two days off from school

I don’t know what came over me, but I gave the boys the entire weekend off from school. We haven’t been with other kids for a couple weeks, so I let them spend their days with the kids from s/v Wildlife, building a hut, gathering coconuts, and going dinghy surfing. They’ve had a lot of fun, except that Brenden, and only Brenden, is covered in bug bites, kind of like no-se-um bites that we used to encounter in Mexico. He is seriously suffering, because they are all over his back, chest, and naval. I’m guessing that since they were on shore at dusk, and because he’s Brenden, he doesn’t just sit and play in the sand, he lays in it and rolls around in it, which is why the bites are where they are and not on his ankles and calves.
We will likely move today, just a bit south, and just one more thing…
Happy Birthday Dad/Papa! Today is actually the 13th here, but I knew I had a one day grace period due to the date line. 🙂
Love and miss you all,
-D.