Feeding frenzy in Suva
We are in a feeding frenzy here in Suva.
Chinese, Indian - superb superb.
Rock cod from the fresh market.
Lemon grass, coriander, and good ciabata.

The Shanghai Seafood Restaurant in the heart of downtown, offers dishes of a high standard.
Singh Curry House (the one at street level, not the one in the food mall at MHCC) serves genuine Indian cuisine, both vegetarian and meat - goat, mutton.

Maya Dhaba, also high standard Indian food with great naan.


Govinda, offers wonderful vegetarian thalis, washed down with excellent sweet or salt lassis. The fiji $12 thali selection is sufficient to feed a couple.

We are both so impressed with Suva in our capital city tour of the Pacific.

So far we have avoided all dugouts, pirogues and bartering of any description.

We nearly lost Jacana the other night though.....
A trough came thru with winds gusting to 35 knots. Dan got up for a captains, and espied a 300 odd foot freighter at right angles to the wind and bearing down us, dragging anchor.



At the time the mechanic had our turbo in his workshop and we were motorless.
On to the VHF; woke up Suva Port Control. From their radar they identified the dragging ship and kept screaming into the mike "Moamoa, wake up"
Someone did, but not before they dragged past us about 15 metres from our port side, narrowly missing one yacht and heading straight for another.

They got the motor started then came crabbing ,back lifting the anchor slowly.
They could not turn into the wind and came steadily toward us.
Just to keep their mind on the job we gave then the spotlight straight between the eyes.
They missed us by 2 feet.
We had the life jackets on.
We could have touched this steel wall with our hands. How they didn't take the rigging we don't know.
We live to fight another day.
We never dragged at all.




Some of the colonial architecture is engaging.

The harbor is busy and cosmopolitan.


We have had a visit from China's satellite tracking ship.


Fishing fleets from Taiwan, Japan and China lie rafted in clumps. The Chinese fishing vessels have intriguing names such as '9 lucky no 2', '9 lucky no 6', and you guess it, ''9 lucky no 14'. We figure they must put all their energy into fishing rather than into the naming of their boats.



They say that positioning is everything. Here Vodaphone sponsors the jail wall and its promise of "giving a second chance". The logo above sure looked like bolt cutters to us - is that what they meant by a second chance?




We follow instructions and hop in to buy their splendid Chinese BBQ pork.




Never ending maintenance work on the boat takes up a few hours a day.
Martin, a local mechanic, has helped us. The turbo charger is now reconditioned; two elbows with pitting have been replaced, the spare water pump has new bearings and seals, and the alternator has new bearings and brushes. The work continues.