By 7am we were off the mooring ball waving goodbye to Alia Vita and heading south en route to Port Vila. We left Luganville via the smaller channel as we are sailing down the leeward side of the islands. The big winds are not that dramatic, but it will be a more comfortable ride this sie of the islands. It was a narrow pass out of the little islands around Luganville, with a load of current, we went cautiously through, with various yacht wrecks to remind us of the reef on either side.
We had a gentle sail for a while, and quite a bit of motoring when the wind died. It was slow progress, quite bumpy, we finally made it to our anchorage just before sunset, a bay at the bottom of Maskelyn island. There were no other yachts about all day, everyone seems to be hankering down for the big blow, we were just pleased to have the whole bay to ourselves and found a suitable spot. There were two good size villages on the bay that we could see on google maps. Plenty of local boats about and a very noisy, rowdy what we assume must be a Cava bar. I was so tired they didn’t bother me, but Rowan said they were still going at 3am, so he had to get up and close the windows. We have had two much cooler nights, it must be the weather system coming from the south.
In the channel leaving Luganville
Religion plays a big part here, churches everywhere
Wonderful trees on the beaches
Our narrow pass leaving Luganville, you can see why SS Coolidge would have gone for the biggest widest entrance
Marker beacons and yacht wrecks remind us to be vigilant
Leaving the pass behind on a very cloudy day
We arrive at our anchorage
Loads of local boats with afairly large village behind the trees
It looks like a fishing shelter out in the sea
What a great sunset
Amazing clouds
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