18 January 2025

For my boater friends – can you help me? Why is red and green color reversed?

When we took the boat out in Fiji to visit the nearby islands, I noticed something that seemed very unintuitive. At least, to what I thought were boating rules.

The top picture is when we were going to the islands (in fact you can see one of our destination islands in the picture). We had just left the main dock. We were cruising out of the main area thru the channel that put us in the ocean.

Notice the nearby boat on our port side. And now notice the markers denoting the edge of the channel. Why is it green in color? Should it not be red? The rule is Red-Right-Return right?

The lower picture is from the same channel when we were returning. Note that the red markers were on our left side. Those should be green right?

Does anybody know what is happening here?

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17 January 2025

From the bartender’s corner: Gin from the 19th country – Fiji

During the heydays of gin research, I had experimented with nearly 50 different gins procured from very different countries. Gin and tonic is still Sharmila’s favorite drink. Whereas I have proceeded to experiment with other alcohols like mezcal.

This gin is really good. Got a very unique, soft and sweet aromatic nose. The botanicals are mostly local. Interestingly, it has Yaqona – which is used to make Kava. The native ginger Layalaya, “ugly lemon” Moli Kula and fresh curry leaves add some nice tones to the palate.

The juniper berries are not grown in Fiji though. They are brought in from Macedonia.

Not sure if this is easy to procure in the USA, but I highly recommend it, if you can get a bottle.

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