This letter arrived from Tina by mail!
Tina has serious problems with the copmuter on-board. Even though their main priorities are to keep the computer running for navigation etc she managed to get this mail across the globe. Literally.

Ed.

7 Nov. 02.45 UTC, Lat. S 27.36 Long. E 178.51
We have just spent a day in Minerva reef, another turquoise swimming pool in the middle of the ocean, where we caught 4 enormous lobsters when snorkeling on the outside reef! Mmmm!
We're under way again, and I am actually on my way "home". Literally, actually!
After some short ten days in the Kingdom of Tonga, and the day in Minerva, we are now chopping down on the 1100 NM to New Zealand and from there I will be flying back to Europe! I'll spend two months in Portugal and Sweden and then I'm headed back to NZ again to continue this maritime adventure! More about that later...
It was nice to experience a new culture altogether in Tonga, completely different from the rest of Polynesia, but ah, far too short a stay. Before that we spent 3 weeks in Niue, a rock in the middle of the Pacific being it's own country, selling the .nu (instead of .com) to the Swedish web market!

Internet was for free in Niue, but despite of that I couldn't send any pictures. Out of all the over 4000 picts that I have taken on this trip, I promise to put some from Niue on the web as soon as I can (Dec?) because this was The Adventurer's Absolute Paradise - Super-Magnificent caves with inside freshwater-pools where you dive through tunnels from one cave to another; chasms where the ocean brakes onto fantastic rock formations exploding into tons of foaming water in a breathtaking scenario; diving in crystal clear water through chimneys with curious and poisonous little sea snakes; snorkeling in tunnels inside the reef table with eye-to-eye encounters with 2.5m grey reef sharks - ten of them...
..actually, the true reason for why there are no picts is that I am embarrassed to show my nose which has been growing lately - a real nuisance when I turn corners...

Updated Nov 10

No pix...

But she has promised updates.