Highlight Video - Yasawa Fiji
It took four whopping months for us to sit still long enough to put together a movie highlighting our time in the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands of Fiji. Click the link https://youtu.be/faiY1GfBLro.
Notes from a Challenging Passage (NZ to Fiji)
In my limited experience, open water passages can be
categorized into three distinct time periods, getting your sea legs, a
blur of timelessness that can include any number of days, and the last
and absolutely longest day known in the universe. Getting our sea legs
typically involves a day of feeling green and seasick followed by a
night of sleeplessness, then a day of being overwhelmingly tired. After
this, we usually get a solid night of rest while Brian and I complete shifts of 3 hours
on-watch and 3 hours off-watch. By the third day we are typically in a rhythm with
the boat, with the sea, and with our sleep schedule. Once we have sea
legs, time seems to warp into a blend of days that are hard to keep track
of. If there are no significant events this time can be 4 days or 10
days, or perhaps more (I have never been at sea that long). Then on the
last day when we can wake up and actually see land, time stands still. I
am certain that it is the anticipation of making la…
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