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Malo e Lelei! Fefe Hake? from the Kingdom of Tonga					Tongan Vaka arrives from New Zealand
French Polynesia is 1400 miles astern. Entr'acte departed Bora Bora 29, April and made stops in Suwarrow, Northern Cook Islands, Pago Pago, American Samoa and arrived in Tonga 10 June, 2010.					Cook Islands ahead





*Suwarrow, Cook Islands.*					Suwarrow, Cook Islands Population zero! Try to find it on a chart, an all but invisible dot of coral in the middle of the Pacific. Latitude : 13 deg 09 min. S Longitude: 163 deg 10 min W. Tom Neal lived alone on this island from 1956 to 1977.


Reunion with Mr. John VI Our arrival in Tonga was also a reunion with Paula and John of Mr John VI. They sailed 1500 miles from New Zealand to bring us two new batteries which were desperately needed. True friendship!					*Happy Birthday, Ellen!*
*The Hausia Brothers*					Music at the Giggling Whale *The Hausia Brothers--They play for the King of Tonga!* *What a band! We play every Wednesday night at the Giggling Whale Restaurant. These guys really swing!*


The Kava Ceremony The Kava Ceremony is the center of all Tongan social activity. Both a welcome and an acceptance, nothing takes place until the kava is poured by the island chief.


Until then, Mou nofo a e !					The Whales of Tonga *Each year, an estimated 700 whales return to Tonga to mate and to give birth. From our anchorages we see more and more arrive every day.* *It's still early in the season. More about this later.*

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Ship Track Position Reporter

You easily can follow Entr'acte's progress through the Ship Track position reporter. This is a free service of the Maritime Mobile Service Network, a dedicated group of HAM Radio enthusiasts that maintain a radio network for ships at sea. Through MMSN we have world-wideaccess to emergency communication, daily weather reports, and daily position reports or we can just take the opportunity to pass the time at sea by calling Net Control to just say "hello!"

When on a passage we file daily position reports over the high frequency radio to MMSN which they post on the Ship Track web site. Just click on the link above and you will be automatically connected to Entr'acte's personañal Ship Track page. There you can see our daily progress, or lack thereof! If you play with the zoom tool on that page, as you zoom in you will see a series of red dots which represent each individual position report(be careful, a little zoom gets you a lot). Place your cursor on a dot to see the time, date, our latitude, longitude and a brief description of the conditions on that day. You can also adjust the page to view specific lengths of time from one week, one month or all positions filed.

If there is no updated position report, it should not be viewed as a disaster. It could mean that we had very bad radio propagation that day, low battery power, laziness or bad weather. It might also mean that we are in a harbour and off the boat exploring or we are very busy having a grand time and just plain forgot!

You can track any vessel that files position reports. All you need is their radio call sign---Entr'acte's is KC2JBX--just go to the Ship Track home page, enter the appropriate radio call sign and off you go!

It's easy! Check it out!