My cousin Zac is here in Vila - it is so exciting to see some family here, seems quite amazing that we have managed to bump into each other in Vanuatu. Zac is working on a boat, I should probably say superyacht, a J-class called Endeavour and because of a bit of lucky bad weather they are stuck in Vanuatu for a week on their way from Japan to New Zealand. We were really worried they would leave before we got back from our trip but luckily a dodgy weather pattern meant they stayed a bit longer than planned.
Its been so lovely to see him and he has taken us on a tour of Vila's nightlife which up to last Friday we had managed to avoid. We spent sunday afternoon on the boat with him and I went up the mast in a sort of sling seat, I didnt get quite to the top of the 140 foot mast but close enough to be worried I'd get stuck on one of the spreaders (one of the horizontal bars on the mast). It was fantastic and we quite enjoyed sitting on the deck drinking wine and jumping in the sea, (we were hoping some of our volunteer friends might see us from shore). And last night we went over in the dinghy to pick him up to
take him home for dinner and the dinghy engine failed so we had to spend the evening on the boat again which was a shame. Its quite tempting to stowaway on the boat back to new zealand.
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