Bart Bear's Blog

At last, Scruffy and I were given a go at the wheel of "Dro Ki Cakau" ("Reef Escape" for them as can't understand Fijian). Here we are in the wheelhouse, hard at work, steering through the channels in the reefs north of Viti Levu. I am watching the GPS and depth sounder on the screens while Scruff is keeping an eye on all the dials. Of course we would have steered a lot straighter if Scruffy hadn't kept trying to push the wheel the other way to what I was. The ship's wake looked a bit wiggly while we were at the wheel, but we didn't hit anything. Not bad for two small bears.

Labels: Captain Cook, cruising, Fiji