The wind's been blowing a houlie for the last couple of days so we've taken the opportunity to catch up on internet and do boat jobs. David's changed oil and filters on both the generator and the engine, checked the engine ready for the trip down to NZ. Though we hope to pick a good window and sail all the way it's prudent to be prepared.
The wind's still blowing hard today as we dinghied across the bay to Port du Sud to see our good friends Eric & Annie on Oso Blanco who'd come in this morning, but while we were looking for them they were at the other marina looking for us. Perhaps if we;d brought our hand held radio.... We did meet up and over cold drinks caught up on the last 3 weeks since we were together in Luganville.
Ever Thursday evening there's a market with music in the central park so we went along. I'm not sure what we expected to see, food stalls, a music band, handicrafts? In the end it was a mix of vegetable stalls, a couple of food stalls, an exhibition sponsored by the Louis Pasteur Institute on mosquitos and dengue fever (there's no malaria in NC), and farm stalls – one had a couple of Sta Gertrude cows and the other silver pheasants, quails, chickens and rabbits. In my poor French I understood this to be a co-operative to promote visits to nearby farms.
Seeing the chucks and beef on the hoof brought on hunger pangs so we headed off to a bar Annie knew for dinner and drinks.
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