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Over the Top
Cruisers with time to linger can pick their way across the top of Viti Levu, staying within
the fringing reef and calling at a number of pleasant anchorages. This calls for a keen eye
on the chart plotter navigation and, potentially, a fair amount of motoring.
Two places along the north coast merit special mention (map, #6). First, the diving off
Nananu-i-cake Island and Volivoli Point is highly rated (book dives through nearby re-
sorts). The nearby town of Rakiraki is a good place to re-provision. To get there, anchor off
Ellington Wharf or Volivoli and grab a taxi to town (F$50 round trip), where there are large
supermarkets, gas stations, banks, and an open air farmer's market. On the minus side,
there is no reliable source of drinking water in this area and the anchorages are deep (forty
to sixty feet).
This northern route is especially attractive as a jumping off point for the Yasawas. We
weighed anchor in Volivoli in the afternoon, put the brakes on for most of the fifty-five
mile crossing of Bligh Water (yes, that Bligh, who passed through during his open boat
odyssey after the mutiny of the Bounty ), aiming for a dawn arrival off Round Island Pas-
sage at the northern end of the Yasawas.
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