Our crew has been hard at work planting the Yasi and we now have all of the 350 seedlings planted. We’ve hired a local logger to cut a few large trees and turn these into 2x4s and 8x1s with his chainsaw so that we can build a small kitchen building, outhouse, and a deck for our temporary garages that we’ve brought from Canada.
In the meantime Arthur and I have taken the bus and gone to Savusavu to pick up some more supplies for our camp and pick up the ATV, generator and temporary garages that he sent in his friend Victor’s container. The plan was that this trip would be a quick turn around trip leaving Wednesday and coming back on Friday on a local transport truck. But best laid plans always seem to change at the last minute. The transport truck left a day early and had no room for our supplies and equipment. As well we have to register the ATV, which takes time – Fiji time if you know what I mean.
So this weekend we’ve enjoyed some time with Victor and his girlfriend Meagan, had a chance to connect with Siana, Kinesi, and Thomas by skype, and gone fishing on Vic’s new boat. Today Vic and Arthur loaded up Vic’s boat with our supplies and the garages and we traveled down the coast and dropped everything off at Arthur’s family estate Waidranudranu. It took only one and a half hours to make the trip to Waidranudranu which is quite amazing considering it took 7 hours to travel by bus from Dogoni to Savusavu. Of course the bus route takes us all the way around the island rather than just up the coast. On our way back we took our time trolling for fish, just caught one small barracuda.
Tomorrow we’ll try to get the ATV registered and if all goes well we’ll drive it down home on Tuesday.
September 7, 2015
I like your job as captain, but I’ll leave the sherpa job to Arthur!