We've arrived!!! Phew.

We rounded the buoy which marks the Savu Savu reef, in calm flat water - This must be a first! Just inside the reef there is a lovely protected area where the Jacques Cousteau resort is situated. We dropped the anchor here and wow. We had forgotten just how wonderful the tropics are. We jumped into a warm sea, swam round the boat, got out of the water into warm enveloping humid air. The sea is calm and quiet, and we are going nowhere. At least not until tomorrow when we head up stream a mile or two into the town to our mooring where we will do customs. Our plan is then to have a lunchtime curry, last year 8 fijian dollars (v cheap!) and celebrate 10 years of wedded bliss.

It seems strange to have lost the noise of the waves hitting the boat and the wind through the rigging. At present he only noise is Clapton " You look beautiful tonight" followed by Hendrix's Wind screams Mary on the IPod, which are accompanying our pre prandial bottle of NZ champagne.

Life is good.