It's easy to lose track of time out here, sorry for not keeping in touch the way I should. We had our godson Evan with us for three weeks and put him on his plane home almost exactly one week ago. He was lucky to have been here during a period of very mild weather, lovely warm sunny days and hardly any rain. He flew out from Matei, at the north end of Taveuni Island. As we watched his plane fly out of view it started to drizzle. By the time we had walked back to the beach where the dinghy was, it was raining. By the time we got back to the big boat it was raining pretty hard. In the pouring rain we hoisted the dinghy motor aboard Buena Vista and then hoisted the dinghy up on deck. Don was busy securing everything topside and I was stowing anything and everything below decks. It was dark rather quickly and the rain was just pouring down as we lifted anchor. I held my breath as we motored out of that reef strewn anchorage following my gps tracks that I laid down when we had entered days before. As we pulled away into deeper waters Don and I each had a huge sigh of relief, knowing that we don't want to do THAT again any time soon. There are reefs everywhere here in Fiji. Navigation here is definitely NOT for the faint of heart, that's for sure. The reason why we pulled out under those circumstances was that the weather was showing a change to pretty strong south-easterly winds starting very soon. We wanted to go in that same direction to the Northern Lau area and if we waited even twelve more hours the wind and swell would be against us and we probably wouldn't make it there. So, we broke the number one rule of sailing in Fiji which is: Only move around reefy areas when the sun is high over head. That way you can see the reef with your own eyes and alter course. OK - so we're underway, it's dark and raining, and we set course for rounding the top of the rocky areas at the north of Taveuni Island, using our chartplotter and radar. An hour later, as we pass that dangerous area we turn to starboard and head to the east. Our destination is Vanua Balavu, aka The Exploring Isles. We are in company with the sailboat 'Aurora Star' with Aussie Brent, his wife American Sarah, and their dad who is visiting from Sydney, Australia, Roy. They are about fifteen miles ahead of us. If things go well, we should be arriving at Vanua Balavu around 9 or 10 in the morning. It turned out to be an uneventful night thank you very much. We passed an island first thing in the morning which is off limits for yachts. Evidentally it's owned by a religious sect (cult?), creepy. We arrived at Adavaci Pass at ten am, held our breath as we followed waypoints through the break in the reef. It was low tide so it was very easy to see where we needed to go and what we needed to stay away from. The pass did get pretty narrow at one bit - nerve-wracking but we made it easily. We are now inside the reef, we dropped our mainsail and made our way to Dalconi, the village where we presented our sevusevu.