{"id":211,"date":"2008-05-14T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/departure-today-for-fiji\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:53","slug":"departure-today-for-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Departure today for Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left the fuel dock at Riverside Drive Marina at 2:15 pm<br \/>\non Wednesday (yesterday) and anchored in Urquhart&#8217;s Bay for the<br \/>\nnight.  Vera is anchored beside us.  We will check-out of New<br \/>\nZealand at Mardsden Point at 3pm and then leave directly for<br \/>\nLautoka, Fiji.  Our course takes up up the east coast of North<br \/>\nIsland and then approximately 350 degrees magnetic to Fiji.<br \/>\nLautoka is a bit over 1100 nautical miles (about 1300 miles) from<br \/>\nwhere we are.  The weather is calm and the forecast is excellent.<br \/>\nWe will try to send regular updates.<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left the fuel dock at Riverside Drive Marina at 2:15 pm on Wednesday (yesterday) and anchored in Urquhart&#8217;s Bay for the night. Vera is anchored beside us. We will check-out of New Zealand at Mardsden Point at 3pm and then leave directly for Lautoka, Fiji. Our course takes up up the east coast of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Departure today for Fiji&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newzealand-2008","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}