After a few days in Tonga’s main town of Neiafu, provisioning, learning about local traditions and folklore, we were ready to explore the seemingly endless g...

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after a few days in congas main town of

Niassa provisioning learning about local

traditions and folklore we were ready to

explore the seemingly endless gems of

the islands nearby the hour-long sail to

the next anchorage was calm and steady

making it pretty easy to multitask while

I worked up an appetite Jose and our

buddy Julian got to earlier go and catch

did they ever always tuna the Odeon

officers joking - not losing you look

yeah so it's gonna around

yeah from that good nice behind the fin

how do you feel about uh I'm super

excited

this means that we're gonna like a

masterpiece what do you think that is

like it came to us it looks like a great

guy oh my gosh it's a big chain oh yeah

if it's a day some saws you listen yeah

these two sides and a delicacy to eat a

lot

see you tonight sir that destroyed

oh definitely because oh yeah we had a

new eye good luck gifts come in many

forms and this 30 pound yellowfin tuna

was a gift indeed not only did we get

the protein that the boys are been

craving we had enough fish to feed 14

people three different ways with

leftovers for everyone but the bigger

gift was that we had a new family of

friends to enjoy it the next morning

us ladies headed to the beach to work

off our feast with a bit of beachy yoga

and the fellas took off on a kayak

expedition

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the expedition got the boys gung-ho

about all the other cool things there

would be to explore so before the sunset

we pulled up anchor and set off to find

another place to sleep for the night

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along the way we heard about a hidden

cave that was once a meeting place for

Tongan royalty to host private feasts

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talk about dinner review the next

morning we took off for our last and

favorite Anchorage in Tonga this is

definitely the narrowest entrance we've

ever done unfortunately we got some

other boats with us so one went through

I was safe

another is about to go through and then

we'll go but definitely very narrow

to sign up so basically what we do is we

yell out the desk so that we are aware

of where we're at so we're a little

extra cautious we upfront I'm in the

back or vice versa and oh my God we're

in 10 feet of water you can see the

shadow the dinghy right there and there

you can see the narrow narrow narrow

entrance that's the narrow essentials we

got to do we had the motor at cruising

speed and we were only going to knots

you can see there how all the water

narrows channel saluteth it's hard to

get some speed but yeah absolutely

beautiful beautiful with beautiful

scenery abound I was looking for any

excuse to get up the mast attaching a

new reflector to the side stay seemed to

convince the captain to hoist me up my

chore for the day is to install our

reflector this thing here we've had this

on the boat for like 7500 miles and have

never installed it and finally today I

decided you know what let's put it up

this is a shorter neck so attached it

with zip ties but needed a few more

they sent them up on a little elevator

video so finish off our finish off the

job and seal off my very professional

installation a little duct tape

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henkle girl all falling from this room

let me it's like astronaut booth give us

Kitty like and move the big ankles how's

that Olympic swim Oh eat them always on

over there because just hop on in five

minutes

yeah a big octopus but it's missing six

legs

video learner like a do and then you

miss the whales well I heard them I'll

decide on this timing down so I get he

he shot a Napoleon fish and spear got

stuck and the gun wasn't attached to it

so you lost the spear no better just the

spear than the gun right yeah fish no

yeah well we were timing down look at it

nobody's know that everything he knows

that's it okay so what I mean down and

you could definitely hear the whales

definitely hear them oh yeah

really close oh they were super close as

I said if she if she put her foot out

she would have kicked it fin that's what

she said

apparently they give birth like right

under one of these rocks it's amazing

well maybe drop tomorrow came and we

were feeling a little lazy honestly we

were settling quite comfortably into

island life but we knew it was time to

move on we're trying to check out Tonga

of course we came over I gotta check

this in said oh when you're checking out

don't bring the boat over just just

bring your documents hey and check out

so you brought a document Spade then

when we wanted to get stamps on our

passport you said Oh where's your boat

though you didn't bring it over it's

like no oh you got to bring it over now

I brought the boat over and the guy says

oh you didn't need to bring it over

bring your documents just in time caught

up with you what you got in your hand

oh I'll show you that for a whole lot of

boring documents and guess what

back in country we haven't paid them

some time somehow I always just forget

about it I don't mind being forgettable

when it comes to all checked out but

nowhere to go a few hours and some

serious brainstorming later we were

finally ready to make our way west

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so it's raining outside and I'm stuck

with Tina and ukulele I'm trying really

hard to learn but I don't even know what

some little eyes of Jane is so we got

this box and we thong in ukulele for

dummies so we got all these songs in

this book that we don't recognize so we

don't know if we're playing them right

or not can be done on how to super fast

what I'd say serenade us your decision

ready this is for you spike in Eleni

five six seven eight I know girl that

you don't know

well Liza Jane way hey guys Gina here

we've been getting a lot of questions

lately about why we haven't been

uploading any news video well the answer

is pretty simple someone's had to get a

job yep a job so after last cruising

season I decided to leave the boat in

Fiji and head back to San Francisco to

you know give my sea legs a rest and get

to know life again as a landlubber I got

a job and quite honestly was pretty nice

getting to spend some time my family and

taking advantage of some sort of the

perks of city living

you know like seemingly unlimited

showers and propane and grocery stores

are always full of everything that you

could possibly ever want well along with

city life also comes a lot of wind and

cold tasty weather here in San Francisco

and all that noise so I have decided

that it is high time to join Jose back

on cartago and continue cruising so I

will be headed back to the boat in Fiji

where we will spend the rest of this

season and then I will have the time to

update you with the rest of our travel

from last season the rest of Tonga Fiji

owes a solo trip to New Zealand and mine

to Indonesia as well as update you on

all of the cool things that we'll be

doing this year in Fiji so stay tuned

thank you so much for hanging with us

and hanging tight and next time I see

you it'll be somewhere a little bit

sunnier till next time

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