Bye bye Fiji, Vanuatu here we come!!

Hello Everyone

After leaving Musket Cove we went to a little village that we had previously
visited, Margaret had bought a few gifts for them, some old school books,
and had printed off some photos of them that we had taken on our last visit
which they were delighted to receive, and was really lovely to see. They saw
our boat moor up alongside their beach and actually remembered us from over
a month ago. The ladies made us some bracelets out of pandana leaves as a
souvenir.

Tuesday we set off for our first offshore passage to Vanuatu. It took us
around 6 hours to get to the reef pass and this was a delightful sail, wind
at 18 knots force 4 on the beam, we could all handle this we thought!! We
had a tricky exit through the reef pass with another yacht entering on the
transit line, showing wrong running lights and then shinning a bright torch
in our eyes!! Great!On exiting the pass night descended upon us and bought
with it hurricane force winds (note it wasn't a hurricane, just winds
reached up to force 11) lightening and torrential rain!!! Day 2 continued
much them same, slightly lighter winds the storm sail remained up, and still
torrential rain, weather that wasn't at all predicted. We were delighted to
wake this morning to the sun shining, and finally we were all able to have a
shower! the good news is Ocean Lady keeps us nice and safe in such strong
weather! well done her!!!

Tonight Stu is cooking lamb chops and roast potatoes, moral is all good on
board!

Hope all is well at home

Ocean Lady