After pure isolation in an uncharted reef, we were ready to sail back into civilization. Woozy kava ceremonies, mischievous thieves and late nights with good...

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when a local hands you a hand-drawn map

of a semi mysterious place in the middle

of the ocean you go right in our last

sailing journal we ventured to beverage

reef an enormous submerged volcano in

the middle of the Pacific we navigated

through the uncharted reef to find the

clearest water we had ever seen and we

don't want a fishing vessel hmm that

didn't navigate the dangerous waters as

successfully after spending time in such

isolation we were ready to mix and

mingle in the Kingdom of Tonga of course

no passage would be complete without a

few hiccups as we turned on our engine

to navigate the wind block tight

channels of the vivo group we realized

it was once again down for the count

but what doesn't kill you makes you

stronger and by now we've gotten pretty

strong at anchoring under sail

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the calm of our first night in Tonga

helped us ease right in but company was

what we wanted and company we did get

some time Dena's putting on a little

show but I'm just looking at it because

that this guy totally duped me I feel

like such a sucker he knocked on the

boat this morning it's very early as

8:00 in the morning and he just kind of

lingered around I was like oh you're how

like so sorry we forgot to do the help

we didn't finish the check yesterday and

so I welcome to my board he goes can

have a costume like sure sure

and he started pulling this out of his

backpack and I was like ah more

paperwork huh and he goes oh no basket

basket on a joke you were health and

immigration yeah

with immigration yeah beef people if I

welcome you on the boat now you're

pulling out all this stuff to try and

stall me okay once the real immigration

was taken care of we ventured into town

to provision see some sights and catch

up with friends for a night of Tongan

culture our first day here I'm so

excited to have found Abel outdoor gym

so we can you know shake off our sea

legs and I'm going to get back to some

kind of normal routine one of the type

of things about being at sea is that

it's kind of hard to get in your groove

sometimes so here is my gym for the day

so excited

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you happy with the selection never that

I'd like to address my stress

provisioning being in Tonga I'm making

progress has been like better

this is like fresh fruit and vegetables

everywhere things we make a lot like

tomatoes and on infrastructure

everything you've been coming over every

day how can we keep coming every day

don't just suffer everything at once

oh yeah I come every single day here's

one not myself dude but we're not for

the market - every day they have to be

different oh that's what I was coming up

it's pretty crazy like one bit of

oranges there's no more basil genexus

unhealthy soldiers potatoes some fun -

like what some things like design and

she's always right at these things and

almost from their yard

why not

as local legend has it mounts allow used

to be the tallest mountain in Tonga long

ago mischievous spirits called to Volos

from Samoa became jealous that Tonga

blocked their view of the Pacific during

the night they came to the island and

cut off the top of Mount allow wood the

intention of bringing it back to Samoa

to make their island the tallest in all

the land but scared off by Tonga's own

sassy spirit with a little flash of her

derriere they drop the mountaintop in

the water as they fled the island while

Mount allow is still flat it remains the

most splendid place to see all of Tonga

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later that evening we took a boat to the

home of tobu who invited us into her

home to share some tongue and traditions

of us her family taught a host of

visitors local dances allowed us to

participate in our first kava ceremony

and enjoy a feast of delicious

Tongan food

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on the water you meet the most

interesting people you might not

otherwise cross paths lived on land

people of all ages all nationalities all

walks of life this is one of the things

we love most about our chosen lifestyle

it is rare though to find people our age

that we get on with and by the time we

made it to Tonga we were lucky enough to

find our game five similar boats

traveling at similar speeds and a

collection of characters to keep us all

entertained Tonga kicked off what would

be an awesome next few months with our

new family on the water now that we had

our tribe we raced out of town to find

an anchorage to call our own we didn't

know exactly where we were going but we

figured is the one with the bluest water

would suffice

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in our next sailing Journal we continue

to explore the Kingdom of Tonga the

fellows flex their spearfishing skills

to catch us not one but several fish

that fed our gang for days we explore

underwater caves and have a few dance

party onboard cartago until next time

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