Bellinis arrive. Our friends, the Bellini family arrived in Suva on Thurs, 9 July. They flew into Nadi the previous night, rented a car, stayed in a hotel, and the drove from Nadi to Suva to meet up with us. Tim and Marcus are childhood friends, and Tim’s known Robin since college also, so they all go way back. We used to charter Lagoon 380’s from Long Beach to Catalina Island every summer with them, and those were always really fun long weekends. They’ve also talked on and off with Tim over the years of wanting to go cruising themselves, so we thought giving them an authentic cruising vacation would be what they would want. However, I think they discovered quickly that cruising isn’t exactly the same as chartering for a long weekend, and I can only hope they didn’t totally regret their choice of how to spend their limited vacation time. We had Exodus mostly prepped to go, so once they arrived we had a quick dinner at the yacht club and then made a night departure to the Island of Gau.

Bellinis are here!