Hi This is our last day in Vava'u before travelling back to the mainland and then on to Sydney after a couple of days. We spent the last 2 days on board this yacht (called Orion)owned by an American who has moved here over 20 years ago and now lives here with his wife onboard this floating hut! The 2 days were pretty amazing, the yacht is a trimaran and so has 3 hulls making it very stable and allowing for us to do som eof the sailing! On the first day we we...

Hi guys just a quick note to say that the Kings burial and funeral is in the next 2 days so I cant do the journal and also today they have shut the internet early so I was planning to do it now but will have to do it on thursday love you all speak soon xx

Today luckily the weather was on our side and so once again we hire a boat from the rent a boat people hoping that this time we wouldnt crash it! We set off pretty early and arrived at the little island of Nuku after navigating our way through very shallow water. Why they let inexperienced people out on their boats i really dont know its not the safest thing in the world. We spent most of the day at our very own little bit of paradise. Matt and I spent the time s...

We all woke up bright and early hoping for the lovely sunshine we had had all week for Julia's Birthday only to find it was raining and the sky was completely gray! So our plans of taking her to a deserted island for the day were ruined and instead we went off to the tongan beach resort and played boules and learned to juggle thanks to our new friend stewart. It was a pretty good day but slightly dissapointing and so we decided to splash out on a really nice meal...

Today was a pretty uneventful day after yesterday! We were hoping that that weekly boat race would still take place even though the King has died...Oh did I not tell you this whole place closes down on his death and there is not allowed to be any entertainment for 100 days! Luckliy we have still been able to do all the trips but we dont know what flights will be like probably delayed..this is quite normal though! Anyway we spent the day at the tongan beach resort...