Mark, Kurt, Andy, Jim and Wendy all got onto Salicorn by 0900 to head for the surf. Wendy has not surfed in years and is a bit nervous but they talk her into going so she brings along a board to try it out.
I snorkel for about an hour viewing the array of coral and small fish before swimming to the surf camp to arrange for all of us to have dinner tonight.
While there, a dive boat comes ashore to feed their guests lunch and I meet Larry Dinger, the U.S. ambassador to Fiji. He actually is responsible for 5 island groups also including Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Niue. He has been in the diplomatic corps for 20 years with a concentration of South Pacific assignments. We talk a bit about the politics of the South Seas and then I swim back to Southern Star. After lunch I take another long snorkel over the coral near shore where there is a profusion of small colorful fish.
At 1700 Salicorn returns with a cargo of weary but happy surfers. We have all had too much sun so dinner and bed are early.
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