Neiafu, Vava’u
27 July 2012
Other than the friendly Mariners Bar, run by Marika, we found the island people not as friendly and receptive as we expected. We all went for a bit of a run/bike or walk North of the island, and came away feeling that the effort to get to Ha’apai, especially on a tight schedule, is probably not worth it. Stay in the Vava’u group!
The over night sail North was wonderful, the seas had flattened, beam reach from 15kts, falling to 7 by the time we got there, but we still maintained a good speed through out.
It was still dark by the time we arrived to the island group, so we decided to drop anchor where we knew was sand between Mala and Utungake I.
A few hours later, we approached the moorings of Neiafu, and could see that 6 of our fellow yachts had made it to Tonga. It was nice to catch up again!