This morning we decided to have breakfast ashore, so we took the bus to the Hilton Fiji Beach Resort and Spa, where we enjoyed a very tasty breakfast at their French Café. It seemed we weren't the only cruisers with this idea though, as we'd no sooner sat down at our table, when Twocan (Margaret and Barry) walked in.

After breakfast and to ensure we got our exercise walk in for the day, we joined Twocan on their walk back to the marina. Then, while Elaine finished off the last of the sewing, Roy ran a few errands, which included topping up our stock of saildrive oil, purchasing a few more watermaker filters, dropping off our used oil at the recycle area and, finally, making arrangements to dispose of our old house batteries with a native Fijian man whom he randomly met on the dock and who is from a village on one of the outer Mamanuca islands.

It's fair to say that the delight on the faces of the three villagers who stopped by Paw Paw in their outboard powered skiff late this afternoon, on route back to their village, after completing their day of shopping on the mainland, was priceless. They were just so gracious and grateful. While these batteries were no longer able to support the myriad of systems on Paw Paw without us having to frequently run the generator to top up their charge and could not be used as a starter battery, they most certainly could be used in a village home.  Homes on the outer islands have solar powered energy that charges a single battery. Then, through an inverter, similar to the system on Paw Paw, powers their lights, TV,  microwave, cell phone chargers, etc. So, have extra batteries is an absolute luxury for them.  It's definitely a true saying: "One man's junk is another man's treasure".