Happy New Year

First! ;)

Fiji, nice location, cool drinks, beach view, fireworks, "Deep Swing - In The Music"  

and my girlfriend, what else you need for a good start into 2014?

Everyone a good start too

Cheers

Route to Fiji

Maninita Island / Bird Island

All in all, it was worth it, trying to shrug the smell off.

 

 

Hunga

Probably the best Place in Vava'u

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Went out for some bluewater spearfishing. Over 12 MahiMahi and a couple of bigger Wahoo's.

Sadly my travel mates forbid me spearing more than we can eat... damn!

Makes absolutely sense, but for sure I had found some others in the next village who've been happy about some Wahoo ;)

Isn't this a good place for fresh Mahi Mahi sashimi? ;)

ARRRRR...

...silence!!!

Swallows Cave's

On our way to Vava'u

 

 

Sunny morning and ready for my first sailing experience.

My Spearbag was not even a small problem, good for me. And with 25€ compared 

to other Airlines, very cheap. Our sailing ship was already prepared and soon we set sail!

Next stop, Tonga

Just as a small overview. So close to Tonga, but again, no cargo ship or flight at all.

Probably the thing with the Internet and no frequent updates will not change

during the next three weeks of sailing.

Looking forward on my first, real sailing experience and

I hope that I will not get any trouble with my spearfishing bag and RealTonga, the local Airline.

I wrote them a E-Mail and also Ben fro Tonga Charters asked them locally, will

be no problem they said...I' not so confident. If this will be a problem,

that will be one of my worst case scenario. Three weeks of sailing and not even a chance

of spearing in the blue. Promised my fellow traveler fish for Christmas dinner ;)

Bluewater

Today Mitch took us out with his boat to the FADs and around the reef.
First FAD, nothing after 60minutes, at the second one, after 15minutes,
two Wahoo's far away. As I read before, let them approach to you, so we did.
Shot, hit and the float was rushing over the surface, oh I love this ;)
But after a short sprint, it escaped. ;(

At least I shot later a Black Trevally and a Parrot Fish for Mitch and
his family. During the fight with the Travelly, another and bigger one
passed by and I also saw two Dogtooth Tuna's.
Why not 5 minutes earlier?

Last night today, time is running so fast. Bought some
Bear for later and put the rest of the barracuda out of the freezer
We both really enjoyed our stay here and for me it will be definitely not
the last time.

Niue has a population less than 1500 people, but only the half is
living on the Island. After this two weeks, it felt more like 200-300 people living
on Niue. So silent and not crowded at all. And what is very unusual
for someone from Europe, you don't have to look your stuff. Leave your room, car
unlocked, all fine. Leave your expensive gear on the terrance, nobody cares.
If you had asked me 5-10 years ago if I wanted to stay in a metropolis or
on a small island like Niue, it would have been the metropolis (but close to
the pacific), now it changed. I really would like to stay for a couple of years
on a small island, like Niue.

Katuali

As I really like them and their elegant movements in the water (reminds

me to my friend Marco, he is doing the same smooth movements with

his Monofin), some more pictures.

 

 

Probably I can cut some more and better pictures from the videos Stefan
and I recorded but this will take some time. At the moment this should be
good enough.