Musket Cove is a favorite among cruisers but it didn’t work out that great for us so no pictures this time.
We stopped primarily to give our son, George, a chance at doing some surfing at some pretty famous breaks.
He signed up and went out with a local outfit the next morning but they didn’t have a surf board for him, no instruction (despite the fact that we specified that at the outset), and the result was that he spent most of the day riding around getting beat up in rough seas and never did get a chance to surf.
We stopped at one of the resorts late in the day and it was pretty “Holiday Innish”. Tough to fathom why folks travel all the way to Fiji to stay at a resort that doesn’t offer much more then they could get in Port Jervis, NJ (that will probably incite a few nasty comments).
Anyway, our parting joke was that we “must get out of Musket”.
While the forecast was for abating winds and seas, we got hammered with head winds (27 knots) and nasty crossing, short interval (6 seconds), breaking seas. We did a few performance measurements that Steve Dashew wanted for the design of a get home drive. When the dishwasher drawer came loose and slid across the galley floor, the crew announced they had had enough and the Admiral directed that the Captain alter our destination to Natadola Resort which was within easy reach off our port side (and offered great spa facilities which the Admiral promptly booked for one hour after our arrival time).
Must admit, the resort was pretty special.
More on that next time.