Sailing Across the Pacific Ocean 2013 (Part 20) - Exploring Tonga
The date jump since my last post is not a mistake. Although Tonga lies to the east of the international date line (ie. we haven't crossed the line yet), they have chosen to be on the same clock as New Zealand for business purposes. Therefore, we had to jump our clocks ahead a day before arriving. Happy Canada Day!
Tonga is a big cluster of 170 islands. Many are uninhabited and take the shape of big 'hockey pucks' sticking out of the water.
It was a cloudy morning on arrival.
After navigating through the cluster of islands we came to the customs dock in Neiafu in the Vava'u Island Group. It was a pretty sketchy wharf, but we managed it again.
After clearing in, Jan and I went for a walk around to see if we could locate ourselves a mooring.
Here is Neiafu's main church.
After asking for directions a few times, we finally found "Mango's", which is a bar that had some moorings available.
We also stopped by a little market that had whale bones for sale.
Are you all out of whale bones?
The day ended with a visit from lufi who rowed up to our boat and offered us bread and lobster and laundry services.
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