For a few days, a tropical depression close by (just off Fiji) was threatening to develop into a cyclone, which had all the cruisers speculating endlessly about the weather and what might happen. Luckily the system weakened, and didn't move across to Vanuatu (as had been predicted at one stage). The image below is taken from "MetBob's" weather website, tracking the depression (Vanuatu is the group of islands in the middle, New Cal is the large long island on the left, and Fiji is the group of islands on the right).