Back up in the Vava'u Group, we heard on the net about a birthday beach party at Nuku Island celebrating a few September birthdays. I detected a Maritimer accent on the radio and gave S/V Serengeti a call. In deed Sue was originally from Hudson, Quebec, and had attended UNB. As I am also a [...]
No, not the Blue Lagoon featured in the movie, but the one in Tonga! We had spent the previous day sailing about 25 miles to check out a little "fair weather" anchorage off Mananita Island, the furthest south in the Vavau Group. We fished on the way but had no strikes. We saw a few [...]
In addition to beautiful setting for whale-swimming, diving, free-diving courses, paddle-boarding, windsurfing and dining, Matafonua Lodge had the added attraction of kite-boarding. Monty in the shallow gybatorium with Whistler in the background. Sand spit on a windy day, with rescue boat on the left and Monty(centre) with the blue and green kite. [...]
We were at the Matafonua Lodge anchorage and were heading to Pangai for a couple nights. We thought it would be fun to invite Darren and Nina's three kids to join us for a short day sail. They had been out of school for a while, as their teacher had moved on. We thought it [...]
The Ha'apai Agricultural, Fishing and Craft Fair was held in July. Matafonua Lodge had several guests going, so a few of us yachties piled in the back of a pick up truck with the resort guests for the 14km drive to town. The fair grounds were full of the locals wearing their traditional dress as [...]
We visited a number of anchorages while we were in the Ha'apai. Nomuka Iki was a convenient day sail from Nuku'alofa and had a reasonable anchorage in normal trade wind conditions. We didn't get off the boat to explore, but I hear there is good snorkelling and a whale-swim operator is just across on the [...]
On a couple of occasions, we borrowed bikes from the Sandy Beach Lodge on Foa Island and rode to Pangai, a 14km distance on reasonable paved roads. This was a way to get to town to do our inter-island clearance with Tongan Customs and to pick up provisions without moving our boat from our little anchorage [...]
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