Today Dreamcatcher, Ronja, and Jeannius left for Niue. We bid them farewell at 7:30am. We enjoyed our time here with them.
Yesterday Stephan and John left on A Lady for Niue also. Donal was not able to go and is nursing his injuries after an accident on his scooter. He looks a lot better but is not able to travel on the boat according to his MD. We are planning on visiting Donal tomorrow at his land location here in Rarotonga.
It has been and exciting stay here since they did an interview with Jim Geddes and photo shoot of all the boats here in the harbor from the World ARC. Everyone on the island seems to know who we are when we travel round.
Today Maggie and I circumnavigated the entire island in 1 hour. Before we knew it we had arrived where we started. There are some lovely lagoons and places to swim and snorkel. We found an especially nice bar and restaurant on the beach run by a guy originally from Oklahoma. Tomorrow night we plan to return for a beach barbecue and have a musical treat by some locals.
Tomorrow the Polynesian canoes will be arriving from New Zealand. They have travelled the whole way there and back using their traditional outrigger canoes. We plan on greeting them in the harbor as they arrive. There is great excitement on the island pending their arrival.
We seem to be developing "an island time" mentality and are not stressing about a time schedule to Niue. We have a month to cruise in the Kingdom of Tonga until we have our rendezous in Musket Cove. We are now planning on leaving Rarotonga early on Monday along with Brown-Eyed Girl and Ocean Jasper. We must complete our customs and immigration clearance and then we will leave.
Today Bill outdid himself buying out the store for water, sodas, juice, beer and wine. We have 2 cases of tomato juice we may have till the Chesapeake. We should have enough liquids to keep us from dehydrating anyway. There is always the issue of how much is really enough.
Rosemary, Bill and Matt