Tuitui
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 20 Jul 2013 22:47
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Our First Motu –
Tuitui Every day we look out of the kitchen
window and look at the little motu, well it can be any window depending on which
way Beez fancies facing. In the police station we got these pictures from the
map on their wall, our motu is at ten o’clock . We
waited for a clear day when the lagoon was smoother than when we got soaked
coming back from our first trip ashore.
We had a great fry up, weather
settled, sun out, time to explore the motu, Bear wiggled Baby Beez through the
coral heads and we landing on the sheltered side on Tuitui. Very different
scrambling up a very hard, crunchy coral graveyard
and finding definite planting going on. Much bigger
than we thought with quite a woodland.
Intrepid
explorer leads the way, we bimbled through storm
damaged trees and came out on the ocean side to find a lovely sandy beach. Beyond was a wide area of dead coral.
Anorak off, steady, well it was a chippy
crossing, yes dear.
To our right we could see the way we
had come in in Beez and the bay we walked to
yesterday.
The area of dead
coral was really very big, we saw lots of tube worm
cases, clam shells, ferns and lots of other hard coral we recognised
having snorkeled over them in Taravai and Akamaru, (not here been far too
nippy).
We walked over it as far as we could
and looking back Tuitui looked rather
lovely.
From out here we could enjoy the power of the ocean, more pictures in
Pacific blog.
Bear went to check on
Baby Beez and pointed out Beez Neez on the way back.
I was waiting for Bear to return,
this little chap came up to me, then closer, in fact
so close I found myself making the noise of blowing out a candle. He stopped dead in his tracks, looked
surprised, made to fly off, then did another
fly past looking quite peeved.
We sat and watched the clouds, they were moving incredibly fast, harbingers of
the storm due in tomorrow.
Time to walk round the edge. It would
be wrong on all levels not to get pictures of driftwood, well drift trees.
A
chap, delightful, waited for ages but he refused to come
out.
Almost completed our
circum-ped when a little shower took us into the Robinson
shelter.
Homeward bound.
ALL IN ALL A GREAT ADVENTURE
GREAT FUN
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