Suva to Musket cove to Lautoka

After a few more days at a couple of anchorages, and never seeing another boat, it was time to head back to the main island but over to its dry sunny west side and to Musket cove, a yachty hangout. It was a easy overnight passage here and we motored through an easy pass and then to the anchorage where there was about 30 other yachts.

We joined and became lifetime members of the Musket Cove yacht club for a one dollar. They had all the facilities there, water, laundry groceries and a few nice places to go for a good walk into the hills. There was only one boat here that we knew and that was an Australian boat Delicado. They kindly gave us a bunch of copy charts of Indonesia which should prove handy.

We spent 5 days here and then went over to Lautoka and checked in with officials who told us we should have come here first before going to Musket Cove which was on our cruising permit, luckily we got off with just a warning. They are about as bad as Mexico with there check in and out bureaucracy and lots of paper work. The anchorage by Queens dock and near the customs dock is ok except for the sugar mill and wood chip mill that spew ash and smoke and get ash on our boat deck. So we are getting out of here tomorrow morning and off to Port Resolution on Tanna the Southern island of Vanuatu which is about a 5 day passage.
Info:
Anchored in 60ft at Musket Cove at 17 46.369 S 177 11.126 E. Join Musket Cove yacht club for a $1.00 and can use the dinghy dock there, but half to pay for drinking water, make sure switched to correct tap and not getting washing water. Some provisioning available and other small shops. I though holding was a bit dodgy in places, got windy and we seemed to be dragging so re anchored, several other boats did the same, thin sand is on coral. Would have taken a buoy but none were available.