Waya is a very beautiful Island, part of the Yasawa Islands of Fiji. The weather did NOT cooperate with us in 2009, so it took us several tries to actually anchor and stay at southern Waya, but we persevered and Jim and Bill finally got a chance to visit a Fijian village and meet a lovely man named Tui.

We were pretty lucky this year in our fishing efforts. This is one of the Spanish mackerel we caught in Fiji. We had a couple of good meals and some good pupus from this guy!

On the right are Bill and Jim from CYC enjoying a little sashimi in Fiji.

Waya is a beautiful island. Since we weren't comfortable at our southern anchorage we had to move to the northern bay (at night - NOT good). This is where we were following a recommended track into the bay (as had another boat), and as we're starting to drop the anchor I see the other boat dead ahead!!! WOW! That was a surprise. Fortunately, as you plan to anchor you're generally going slow and we were able to stop the boat and change course, avoiding the nearly inevitable collision!

Every place in Fiji we did sevusevu with the chief or his designate. You can see that this village (named Yalobi) is quite prosperous.

One of the reasons is that they see a lot of yachts and receive regular income from the sale of their handicrafts.

The village is very neat and attractive with little paths and hedges along the paths.

These photos are from 2007 and 2009, so you see Stacey and Bill as well as Jim from Wetnose.

When we returned to Yalobi in 2009 we met a neat guy named Tui who showed us around and invited us to his house for a nice snack, AND I don't have photos of that visit.