Laying the mooring...

 We decided to lay a mooring for Prrr in the estuary/lagoon bordering the farmland ,  in order to spend weekends and as much other times as possible, closer to the farm.   Permission was obtained from FIMSA, the maritime organisation.
 It was a straight forward application and procedure and we had no problems obtaining the permission to lay a mooring in Fijian waters.

 It was Bobby's job to get the 1.5 ton block onto the truck, onto the tug that was going to lay the mooring!

 As always, Subsurface came through for us.


The scale gave the final evidence that the boat will go nowhere!

 Bobby lowering the mooring block at the marina.

 Charles, our always happy friend from Dive Centre , Suva , has been a  H U G E  help in making this all happen.

Lowering the block for the tug to lift.

...and then we were on our way to the beautiful Dreketi estuary, home of Naciriyawa and soon a mooring place for our yacht as well.

Claude checked the spot months before and although it is not a perfect spot, due to the strong tidal current, we could not go closer to land as it is too shallow.

Whether it is a yacht or a tugboat, I was soo happy to be on the water once again.

 Claude and I tying the surface buoys to demarcate the position of our mooring.

..hoisting it again....

the final drop......

I anticipated a huge splash..or something....but the mooring just slid slowly under the water....

The water was clear and the mooring was visible at 6 meters.

 The diver doing a final check.....

 All good!

and after all the planning it has all happened and soon this will be our view - hopefully for as often as possible

a big VINAKA (thank you)  to Bobby and Tony from SUBSURFACE FIJI and
                                                Charles and his team  from DIVE CENTRE
for making this all happen for us.