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Fiji: Flirting With the Date Line
On paper, crossing the Pacific in one season seemed like a perfectly good plan. But once
there, we were like kids in a candy store: everything looked so good. We wanted it all! So
when the chance came to decelerate our cruise from a two-year run into a three-year jog,
we grabbed at it like the greedy sailors we are. There is just too much to see, too quickly.
So many fascinating islands and cultures. Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia were all at the
far end of our itinerary. Surely they all deserved more than a quick fly-by?
Or so we supposed, because we actually had very little information on cruising in those
areas. Right up to the time when we left New Zealand at the start of our second Pacific sea-
son, we had little notion of what a cruise in Fiji might look like. In part, that's because Fiji
is one of the few Pacific island groups that couldn't be tackled in one logical, leeward-to-
windward direction. There are choices to be made, zigs to be zagged, and more than what
any sane sailor can cover in a single season. For the spoiled cruisers we had become, a real
conundrum.
So where to begin?
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