Reunited with Friends from Mexico

Imagine our surprise and excitement when, as we were pulling into the harbor of Tongatapu, we heard some familiar VHF radio traffic, “Port Control, Port Control, Port Control, this is sailing vessel Fluenta, Fluenta over.”

Fluenta, Fluenta, Fluenta!”

These are our friends that we had met very early in our cruising adventure, back in the early days of the Sea of Cortez. We had left Mexico about a month before them, so we had been following their adventures across the south pacific by email. It was so nice to finally catch up in person. The boys had fun running around with Jonathon and Victoria again, well, OK, mostly Brenden, because Alex is a teenager now and teenagers are just boring. Baby Benjamin was so much bigger, but of course, that’s what babies do.

We also met up with another boat we knew from Mexico, and we’ve known them almost as long as we’ve known Fluenta: Steve and Judy on s/v Code Blue. Although they aren’t a “kid boat” we have a special bond with them since they are one of the few boats we spent the hot hot summer with up in the northern Sea of Cortez.