September 28, 2018
We’ve had amazing weather this season. Because of the light winds and great conditions, we’ve been able to do much more than usual. Not any more. It looks like the bad weather will be making up for lost time with lots of wind and more rain than we’ve ever seen in our three previous visits to Fiji.
This is a picture of our precision rain gauge taken in Lami near Suva. I’m not sure we’ve ever seen that much water in our dinghy. That was from just one night!
We left Lami, in part, because of that brown water that shows so clearly in the photo. We can’t make fresh water out of that. Our filters would clog in about seven seconds. The other reason we left was that, with the coming winds, we weren’t sure that we could keep our mooring. The owner might need it to further secure his boats. We didn’t want to have to scramble for a spot to anchor during the worst of the blow, so we moved back a berth at Pacific Harbor as it doesn’t look to get better anytime soon.
Here’s what windy.com has to say about our future weather…
We’ve never seen this much lightning in Fiji. We had an intense thunder storm in Suva a couple of days ago. We are forecast to have very high winds too.
Even the pool is rough today…
When it all passes, we’ll get going again, but in the mean time, life in Pacific Harbor is very good.
-Rich
