The past two days have been rather uneventful, mostly due to the unpleasant weather that has arrived and has produced a very lumpy sea, strong winds and cooler temperatures. However, "cooler" in this context still means shorts and t- shirt weather during the day, but requires something slightly warner at night.

After heading ashore yesterday morning to purchase some fresh produce to tide us over for the next few days, we returned to Paw Paw and prepared her for the strong winds. Primarily that involves stowing everything in the cockpit like the cushions, swimming towels, snorkel gear, paddleboard, etc as well as tying up the wind generator so it doesn't spin out of control.

By then it was time for an afternoon nap for Elaine, while Roy completed the data migration from our existing website to the new one. We're almost ready to reveal the "face-lift"!

We wrapped up the day facetiming Brooke, Capri and William, since the twins were already in bed and eventually managed to get William to say "grandpa".

Today was just a tad more exciting. We woke to some good news regarding our landlubber affairs, Elaine caught up with family in Ireland, we had a quick chat to Keenan and then we were boarded by the New Zealand navy and Fiji customs officials to check that all our paperwork was in order.

Once that was all out of the way, we took advantage of a break in the weather to head ashore for a coffee and an exercise walk to stretch our legs, following which we spent the rest of the afternoon researching our next destinations of Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Australia. A beautiful sunset wrapped up today with the hope that the weather is clearing from the west.