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Category: Fiji

Fiji blog posts offer a glimpse into our stay in this beautiful and very friendly country where we cooked food in a hot spring, assisted another catamaran in distress and tried drinking kava.

Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Eight Bathers painting.
June 20, 2023June 20, 2023Lorraine Escher

An Octave of Women: Shades of Contrast in Fiji

Julia from SV Tribalance inspects her soup as it cooks
May 28, 2023May 28, 2023Lorraine Escher

Fiji: making stew using a hot spring

Lorraine is offered Kava drink from the chief during a Fijian sevusevu welcoming ceremony in Savusavu.
May 26, 2023May 26, 2023Lorraine Escher

Sevusevu Ceremony and First Time Kava Drinker in Fiji

Stopped sailing image
May 24, 2023May 24, 2023Lorraine Escher

We have stopped for the night, 60 nm to Savusavu, Fiji

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