After a week of hard
partying we decided to remain aboard for New Year’s Eve and Kaija’s Birthday
celebration. This turned out to be a
very wise decision. Along about midnight
the winds started to howl and increased with some force for the remainder of
the night. As morning broke on New Year’s
Day 2016 we discovered that we had been visited by our first cyclone of the
season…Cyclone Ula. Although we were
undamaged, that was not the case for the good ship Karma that was sitting quite
high on her side on the reef having broken her mooring during the night.
Karma....mmmm???
A group of cruisers
gathered quickly to see if we could render assistance and after being joined by
the Motor Vessel Contraband were able to finally pull her back into deep
water. This turned out to be the
training exercise for what was to be a very busy cyclone season in Savu Savu.
