{"id":3537,"date":"2015-11-27T00:56:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2015-11-27T00:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T00:56:44","slug":"chickens-what-chickens-neiafu-vavau-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Chickens? What Chickens? – Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"070604-chickens_170\"<\/a>Everywhere you look in Neiafu there are chickens. In front yards, running across the road, in backs of trucks. And where there\u2019s chickens, there\u2019s eggs. Lots of \u2018em. So we have to be very careful to avert our eyes in case we surreptiously start counting them. No sir, not us, we\u2019re not counting chickens\u2026.or eggs\u2026or anything remotely poultry-related.We\u2019re just waiting, perhaps not quite as patiently as we\u2019d like. After a couple more late night phone calls to the UK, our course computer finally got picked up by DHL on Monday afternoon UK time. It arrived in Auckland, NZ on Tuesday night and sat there for 24 hrs. Another phone call to DHL on Thursday, and it’s now in Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga, about 125NM south of us. The final hurdle is getting it here to Neiafu. Not usually a problem as there\u2019s three scheduled flights a day. But it just so happens there\u2019s a big fat tropical depression forming to the north of us which is going to pack winds up to 40kts for the next 2-3 days, so we don\u2019t know if the planes will be grounded\u2026..it\u2019s nail-biting stuff folks!<\/p>\n

So the days tick by, and we try to keep busy doing boat jobs, preparing for a possible departure mid-next week (no chickens were involved in this suggestion). We\u2019ve cleaned the hulls and filled the diesel tanks, and now we\u2019ll have to hunker down while the wild weather blows over. Last night we enjoyed\u00a0Thanksgiving dinner at the Aquarium Cafe with our American cruising buddies from “Palarran” \u00a0and “Tang”, CB, Tawn, Nathan & Sally. I\u2019m hoping we have something to be thankful for in the next couple of days. Watch this space\u2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everywhere you look in Neiafu there are chickens. In front yards, running across the road, in backs of trucks. And where there\u2019s chickens, there\u2019s eggs. Lots of \u2018em. So we have to be very careful to avert our eyes in case we surreptiously start counting them. No sir, not us, we\u2019re not counting chickens\u2026.or eggs\u2026or … <\/p>\n

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