6 June – 20 July 2015
We departed the island of Matuku in the evening on Fri 26 June and had another nice downwind overnight sail. This time we were bound for Kadavu, a large island to the south of Suva. In the morning, we entered The Great Astrolabe Reef by way of Naigoro pass and anchored two nights at the small bay just inside the pass at the eastern side of Kadavu Island.
A day sail away found us anchored off the small, uninhabited island of Namara, which is NW of Kadavu and inside the same greater reef system. We spent three peaceful nights there until provisions at Suva started to call to us, and then we had a fast day sail up to Suva, arriving Thur 2 July. The week we were in Suva went by like a whirlwind as we provisioned, prepared for visitors, and caught back up with our other kid boat friends. Our friends from back home, the Bellini family, arrived on 9 July and that night we were off for a bouncy and wet overnight passage to the island of Gau, which is east of Suva. We had an amazing week at Gau spending time at a few different anchorages, and then we made another overnight passage to Yanuca. Yanuca is a small island inside the Beqa lagoon just to the southwest of Suva. We spent our last few days of the Billini visit at Yanuca until we departed for Musket Cove on the evening of 20 July.
(Matuku) –> Kadavu –> Namara –> Suva –> Gau –> Yanuca/Beqa Lagoon –> (Musket Cove)
Gresham Family Exodus 