Nambouwalu

We said our goodbye's and left Savu Savu this morning. A few hours later Chaotic Harmony arrived in Nambouwalu(pronounced nam-ba-wa-loo). We had a great, windy, crossing over here and the anchorage is calm, protected and windy(great for the wind generator!). Well better get started on my school!

Hunter Pearls

Ok, we're still at Savu Savu. No I'm not complaining! It's been really go to stock up on everything, and get some solid Internet access. Mum, Grandma and I went to a pearl shop yesterday. They grow the pearls here in Savu Savu-don't worry outside the harbour- and we went on the tour last time we were here. It's a pretty good tour, they tell you all about them and how they grow them etc... I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about pearls, or just likes them.
Anyway getting a bit of the topic here... Ok, so we went to the shop that they have here. The shop's got lots of gorgeous pearls in earrings, pendants, necklaces (they don't set them in Savu Savu but they will set a bracelet in leather with pearls). There's this really nice pendant that is set in gold silver, it's an octopus but main part of the head is the pearl.
We went though all the lose pearls and I found a really nice bunch of not-so-expensive pearls. They were colourful and bright but had lots of imperfections(by imperfections I mean that their not the perfectly round and smooth, the ones that I choose were really wonky looking!). I really like the not perfect pearls, the imperfections give them a character. I got 3 pearls set in a bracelet... but I'm not even allowed to see what they look like when they're set till my birthday(7th of October)!!!!!

Yellow Fin Tuna

They call Yellow fin tuna the most respected fighters in the ocean, and we caught one! When it took the line, the line went on fire!(not literally of cause...) It took the whole line out, and it was hard to get it back in. I was reeling it in while dad was down sugar scoop (the part after the steps down the back) pulling in the line. The fish was 9kg and tasted pretty good.

Mahi Mahi

We just caught a beautiful Mahi Mahi. It was specular in colour, it put up a pretty poor fight though. We left the second line in and put the first one back in after unhooking the Mahi Mahi, in hopes of catching it's life time mate that normally sticks by for a while. Well at the moment mum is cutting up the fish and the 2 cats are meowing their heads off for some fresh fish. There were two complete and fresh, flying fish inside the Dolphin Fish- that Baden is cutting up for the cats.

Manta Rays

A few days ago we were crossing a reef when mum spotted some Manta Rays feeding in the reef. Another catermaran that was traveling with us called "Aussie Oi" saw them to. We lowered our dingy into the slightly swellish water and, along with the snorkeling gear, we headed off. Mum stayed with the boat first then swaped with dad. The massive Bats of the Ocean were so gracefull, although they looked menicing. They'd speed off if we got to close and would flap a corner of their wings out of the water, every now and then. This morning there were spinner doliphins swimming off the stern also. We've been spending a lot of time with 'Aussie Oi', partly because they have 2 kids on board that we all get along well with. Well I'd better go because today we parted ways with Aussie Oi (but we'll meet up again before Musket Cove race week, on the 14th) and now are racing another cat called Salanjo (Sally, Ann and Jo) into the bay that we'll stop for the night in. Fingers crossed that there'll be internet access there!!! C'ya