Photos from Suwarrow

Bamboozle
Jamie and Lucy Telfer
Thu 16 Sep 2010 02:58

13:49.660S 171:45.554W

 

We are now in a very soggy Apia, capital of Samoa. We had a good trip on from the Cook Islands and have spent a few days here looking around the main island and enjoying the hospitality of the friendly Samoans. Sadly we now seem to be sitting under the South Pacific Convergence Zone which has meant we have had 5 days solid of heavy tropical rain and threatening grey skies which does not show the place off to its best advantage. Fortunately we have a supply of sunny photographs from Suwarrow to keep away those wet weather blues.

 

Magical Suwarrow from our cockpit.  Not a bad view for breakfast on the morning of our arrival.

 

 

The crew of Pickles arriving for dinner.  Guy and Joanie with their four "Pickolitos".  If travelling across the Pacific

occasionally feels like hard work for us, we just remember to ask ourselves how Guy and Joanie do it.  They make raising

4 kids look easy despite the environment.

 

 

Supper fresh up over the side.  The fishing is not difficult apart from getting the catch

aboard before the sharks take their share.  I reckon this one went reef to pan in about 15 minutes.

 

 

We don't throw any of the fish heads and guts into the water around the boat instead they get fed to

the sharks in the pass away from the yachts.  Here James (the warden) is getting ready to feed the sharks at sundown, which

is quite a spectacular event.  You can see them all massing in the shallows ready for their tea.

 

Mind your ankles!

 

 

 

You would have to be pretty stupid to swim off this beach given the picture above!

 

 

Pot luck supper in the internationally famous Suwarrow Yacht Club.  This has got to be one of the most remote "yacht clubs" in the world. 

Lucy is joined here by Rhian (Zephyrus) and Dave and Rayanne (Nikita).

 

 

As the evening progresses Jamie finds himself packing down with the Cook Island front row.  James and Apii,

our two wonderful hosts, who shared their love and knowledge of the island (as well as providing a lot of entertainment).

 

 

Apii taking us on a reef walk.

 

 

Here Apii introduces us to a coconut crab, with a nip that could take your fingers off.  The secondary

reason for the days excursion was to collect plastic and rubbish that washes up onto the reef even here,

so far away from anywhere.

 

 

Sundowners on Bamboozle.  We had a record breaking eighteen people for drinks on board.... 

unsurprisingly the party lasted considerably longer than it took the sun to go down.