Apart from the rain and mosquitoes, Tonga has been a wonderful stop off, very helpful friendly people. We don't seem to have much luck with hire cars, this time we hired a 4 x 4 but managed to get it stuck in the mud and slid down a slope, reinforcements were called trees cut down and the car was manually lifted back on the track by our giant Tongan helpers (thanks guys) thankfully no damage to the car or us. We had a magical evening in the Spanish restaurant (La Paella) on Tapana island, it made our Spanish crew feel quite at home they all got up on stage and sang a few songs for us,last night we organized a beach BBQ with Jus Do IT and had 8 other WARC boats join us so again more singing from the Spaniards,and Gerry (Northern Sky) sang some good ol country music.Today we are snorkeling in the coral garden, and will leave tomorrow night for Fiji should arrive Sunday evening.