Well our mini-adventure/gap-years have nearly come to an end here in Vava'u and we're getting ready to go back home to NZ. We've now sold all of our possessions of any value that we can't take home with us. Things sold really well despite many of the palangis and sailors not being here due to border closures (https://offloop.net/sale/).
We'll hang out on the mainland for a couple of days before we fly out on Jan 7 to Tongatapu. After a week there to finalise the paperwork for the dog we'll fly back to NZ for two weeks in quarantine on Jan 14. Hopefully they'll put us in one of the nice rooms, but really, any room they put us in will be pretty luxurious compared to here. Hot showers, TV and fast internet will be lovely. Spy will be spending his quarantine for 10 days in Christchurch and we'll be in Auckland.
Sam has checked out our container back home with all our furniture, and most importantly, a bed and mattress for when we get home, and everything is bone dry with no signs of condensation from the frosty Canterbury winters.
We're just getting back into storm season here and the Pacific is sending us a few wee storms to see us on our way. We repaired the storm shutter/verandah roof that blew off unexpectedly, so hopefully we're ready for whatever might come. We will miss the bulk of the storm season though.
Here's the hut with the storm shutter in the standby-for-storm state - we were just putting in a few last roofing screws and checking it all still shuts correctly. It closes down fully and locks in place with blocks of wood and bolts once the storm arrives, and we stow the hoist and pulley under the house.
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