Once again, I cannot overstate how much we enjoyed Aranuka. When we made the somewhat abrubt decision to leave on a marginal weather window, we spent a couple hours walking around the village and visiting people we had met in order to say good-bye. Everyone was so welcoming; I can’t tell you how many invites we had for lunch that day!
Good-bye to some of the kids of Aranuka
While saying our good-bye to Ruteru, we found out that he has an SSB radio, so once we were underway we did a radio test with him and everything seemed to be working, and he joined us for a couple of our daily nets. That was definitely a first for us… SSB traffic with one of the islanders! (Spoiler alert: it won’t be the last! Up in Marshalls one of the islanders is actually a net controller.)
Gresham Family Exodus 