Yanuca Photo Log

July 17-20, 2015

Yanuca is a small island inside the lagoon of the larger island of Beqa.

Logbook – July 17, 2015 (Gau to Yanuca)

Passage Log Highlights

1930 Engines on
1945 Depart (Nighttime departure through a pass, yikes!)
2014 Engines off. Genniker only.

Logbook – July 18, 2015 (Gau to Yanuca)

Passage Log Highlights

0352 Jibe ho! Genniker only
0404 Vessel – lights + large radar signature 6 mi dead ahead. No AIS.
0432 20 deg course change to SB. Other vessel is stationary.
0608 Genniker only
0623 P engine on to charge batteries
0719 P engine off
0848 SB engine on
1300 P engine on
1320 Engines off Yanuca

Daily Notes

Walk across island to village for sevusevu. Clean and well cared for village
Fish feast with Nautilus on Exodus

The Beqa Lagoon (Beqa is the larger Island)

Anchored off the Island of Yanuca (the village was on the other side of the island, but we anchored here for protection from the prevailing wind direction)

From the anchorage we walked over the island to the village to do sevusevu, and here is a view overlooking the village.

Email to Family and Friends dated July 18, 2015

Subject: Exodus – En Route to Beqa

We are currently on a nice, slow, downwind sail on our way to the island of Beqa. We spent a couple days near the southern pass at Gau, and the consensus was that the diving and snorkeling was pretty amazing. I only snorkeled once, and I have to say that I didn’t think it was anything special, except for the huge school of circling barracudas and the giant grouper. We’ve certainly seen much, much better coral. Anyway, the wind is dying on us right now and we are limping along at under 4 kts but it’s quiet and no one is seasick, so there’s certainly nothing to complain about. It was a clear, starry sky all night and I spent the first couple hours of my watch monitoring a large vessel (fishing?) visually and on radar, and I’m not sure why they weren’t transmitting AIS. They were stationary for a long time, and I was going to pass it about 2 miles away, but then, of course, it started moving towards our track, probably on its way back to Suva. It’s long gone now, and the kettle is on, so I’ll be enjoying a cup of coffee and the sunrise momentarily.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

Logbook – July 19, 2015 (Yanuca)

Daily Notes