We arrived on Nuie Island late yesterday afternoon. As we were sailing along the coast to the anchorage I commented to Charlene that if one wanted to drop off the grid and never be found this would be the place to do it. It is pretty isolated, about 1100 NM south west of Bora Bora and 300 NM north of Tonga. I think there are a couple of thousand residents. Very few tourists, though airplanes do land here twice a week. They leave within an hour of landing. There are three boats in the anchorage, both with people we have met along the way.
Between the boats there are 8 people, and it appears we are the only "tourists" on the entire island.
We had some great sailing and a few inconvenient things stop working periodically, one squall with 40 kt winds (lasted about 45 minutes) and just enough stuff to make a convert of me. Convert to what you may ask. Well, convert to a believer in the old sailing superstitions that leaving on a Friday invites bad luck on your passage. I will detail the many minor mishaps in an other post that brought me to this conclusion. Clearly there are many other superstitions held by sailors for eons and I am still not sure about many of them, I am sure of the one I purposefully flaunted.
Since it is the weekend, the only internet connection is in a three booth cyber place owned by the local telecom folks which is where this is being written. They have electricity but being related to New Zealand it has a weird three prong plug receptacle for which I do not have an adapter. Thus I am running on batteries for now which are in need of charging, so More later