Niuatoputapu  |
| 4 METERS ARE TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE BOAT ... |
Niuatoputapu to arrive, most northern island of Tonga, at 5 am. There is still light and we can not enter the passe.Sulla paper we see an anchor to the extreme south-west dell'sola between itself and reef esterni.Decidiamo trying. After about 45 minutes are reported in view of the anchor, but the waves are still 2-3 meters and it is not. Meanwhile, the dawn has come and we are going to go back to the pass, but wind and waves against us we have made almost two hours.
Well after 30 hours of navigation with three-meter waves, the boat slamming, more 'wind than expected which is great because we are more' fast, but he busted our prediction of no less than 5 hours of arrival. ... And the pilot every now and then turns off. This is the icing on the cake.
We enter the pass which fortunately is marked by the poles that bring us up to the anchor. Now everything is quiet, we find that we met at Silver Lining Suwarrow, Frank Margo and two sons who are there to salutare.Tramite VHF warn us that we must stay on the ground on board until we come to ... immigration control, customs, quarantine.
go to sleep so do not arrive until afternoon inoltrato.Chi warned us and be a nice lady ... tonghiana that island and the only radio that acts as an intermediary between the boats and authorities and invites us to the next Sunday lunch at her with a couple of other crews. Without
practices came with three very nice ladies room, go down to terra.Qui last year came a tsunami caused by an earthquake, which swept the three villages on the island. Shaved Virtually all the houses to the ground. Now they are rebuilding the monostable wood, but the government decided to build on the hill While many families want to stay on the sea because there are fewer mosquitoes, more 'land and pigs can be watched over, running free in the village, while in the hills there is the cultivation of vegetables that would magiate by stessi.Domenica, let Mass in the village where we are ... ... about 100 people fewer than 2 churches, one Catholic and one Methodist. The Mass is sung with feeling and everyone involved with the clothes and walk through some of festa.Facciamo palme.Attraversando the island to the north there is a long beach of white sand, from which we see the splash and the tail of a large whale . Here too bananas, coconuts, papayas and other boats mancano.Arrivano not decide to make a lunch of .. suckling pig cooked in the ground, covered with banana leaves ... .. and other local dishes cooked by Sia and his family.This once you pay, but it's worth the expense.
After a week we decide to leave for Fiji, time flies and the hurricane season approaches. Dubbed to be out late October or early novembre.Speriamo up the autopilot functions
After 5 days of sailing from Suvarov, we come to American Samoa. Stage for trouble forced the autopilot. We enter the industrial port of the island of Tutuila, Pago Pago, who is also the capital. Already the island from the sea there is luxuriant, with its volcanic mountains covered with thick vegetation, in a rich deep green bananas, grapefruits, coconuts and breadfruit trees to finally learn to cook. After all, are nothing but large sweet potatoes Opposite the town there are a dozen boats, the formalities revenue is semplici.Dogana, captaincy and immigrazione.In costs are paid out. ... and do the usual clearance for the boat. They are $ 152 to the face of local americani.I are polite and always smiling, often with the men wear shorts, official dress, which seems to us a skirts. Official currency, the dollar and the English language. Clearly, they talk of the bay there are polinesiano.Nella industries for canning fish and we often are downwind or smell the smells .... We turn the island with the local bus, made from old Dodge dual-axis with the body color of wood and metal, the envy of the airport Pininfarina.Verso the road is blocked by big pik up and find the Mc.Donald usual, Pizza Hut etc. Here we see America. There are indeed a supermarket where you can find everything around the island and the small shops. Fruit abounds, but is lacking vegetables except onions, taro and some cetriolo.Noi go to the grocery store in the country as usual''and''self-service back in the boat with a beautiful bunch of bananas, breadfruit and a pair of coconuts . During one of our tour of''fruit'''per shelter from the rain we snuck in a Methodist community, it's Sunday and the church is gremita.In an adjacent room, the women prepare lunch and after a while 'insistence on the part of their we sat down to eat with a group boys and girls who peppered with questions: where you come from, where you sleep, where you go etc.. After eating Guido thanked the pastor. Let's go back to the boat with stops along the way to take our favorite banana, small and plump
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