We had a weather window to move the day after we anchored here in southern Tahanea, but we didn’t take it. There might have been a slight chance forecasted to leave yesterday, but it never developed. We’re just hanging out and loving it! Last week we were foraging the island […]
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We weathered the big storm and our big anchored held with no problems. We are very happy to report that King Neptune’s Garden handled the sea salt bath as of yet so hopefully we’ll be eating some pretty tasty and big tomatoes soon. The weather is slowly shifting to the […]
We left on a Friday. We actually didn’t realize it was a Friday until after we had left the south Fakarava pass. The wind was from the north at 15 to 25 knots and seemed perfect for our sail to Tahanea. We were running downwind and cruising at 7 knots, […]
This is a terrible joke that we titled this post, “Almost The Last Post”. Originally, we thought we should make a post before we snorkeled south Fakarava passage because of the danger but we didn’t really want to scare anyone so we waited until we got back to the boat. […]
This morning we left Toau early because the winds started to increase speed and we were not sure how strong the tide was going to ebb or flood the channel. As we approached the channel to leave Toau we were a little nervous because the waves looked like they were […]
We woke at 5:00 AM pulled up our anchor and headed out the Apataki south pass. Morning wind and our weather reports predicted the wind from the north, so we worked for an hour preparing to raise our downwind sail or spinnaker. The wind direction was not accurate for our […]
We waited 48 hours to have a better understanding of the weather and it looks like the worst of the storm will stay southwest of us by 150 miles. And the forecast looks like we should not have more than 30 knots of wind and it will be 10 days […]
We were lazily playing around north east Apataki. Gathering coconuts for an evening refreshment, spear fishing, and barbecues on the beach. We even attempted hunting lobsters to no avail. We knew it was time to start moving on, but we weren’t ready to leave so we pulled our Sailmail weather […]
We were surprised this morning with a knock at our boat by Brice a friendly local we met yesterday. He stopped by to give us black pearls and coconuts. As we talked story we learned about a beautiful motu north east that we were permitted to gather coconuts, coconut crabs, […]
As we explore Motu Rua Vahine, southern Apataki, and resting from busy Pape’ete we try to stay in the shade because it is hot. We wouldn’t say the humidity is higher than the southern United States, but the heat has brought the sea water temperature high enough that our afternoon […]
We were sailing along and last night around midnight the wind disappeared. We had maybe a 5 knot breeze so we pulled over to Apataki. We found a sweet motu on the south end, called Vahine, and anchored to rest. We are both super tired but jumped in the crystal […]
The internet connection was a bit slow yesterday, so a belated Merry Christmas to everyone! We’re sorry we haven’t updated lately but just like most people we got busy around the holidays. Â Jackie and Ryan rented a car and met us at our last anchorage to hike the lava tubes. […]