Day 217 Provisioning

In the morning we do another wash down of Southern Star so she is clean and ready to sail.
Mark and I grab a taxi to Nadi to do the last provisioning at the open-air victuals market, the meat market and at the supermarket.
While we are gone, Andy and Kurt clean and stow the dinghy. Everything else that we can do has been done. Mark replaced the prop shaft seal and the scupper hoses the other day and we have abandoned the idea that we will get the generator running for the trip.
Southern Star is ready, we are ready and now it is up to the weather. The GRIB files show favorable winds to 30º south latitude but do not predict further than 7 days in advance. There is a high-pressure system over Australia that is moving eastward and may reach us before we make landfall. This could mean some unfavorable wind and storms but we will not know that until we get there. At worst case, we will add one day to the trip by turning north to ride with the wind until the front passes and we can return to our southerly path. We will wait until Saturday to take advantage of the most favorable weather and to get one more day of predictions.