To Apooiti
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 14 Sep 2013 22:57
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To Apooiti Marina, Raiatea
 At half nine this morning, Beez once
again did her dancing on the spot to help take the weight off the anchor, for
Bear to wind it in – this time at a steady four knots, just to stand on the
spot. Half way along the bay I saw ‘a shack with a
view’ that we had missed the first time. What a beauty.
 Right at the edge of the bay, we have
now decided that this shack with a view is indeed top
drawer and will be entered into the finals of this years ‘One Careful
Owner’.
 What an idyllic
setting.
 Possibly as a
double entry with detached garage.
 Nutters. Fit
nutters at that. No good to me wearing all those clothes. Well the gusts are to forty knots.
 No wonder they have a support craft with them then. The rest of our seven and a
half mile journey was very uneventful. We saw the sign to ask for permission to
cross the runway approach, and did so on channel sixteen, as directed. Silence
was the stern reply, until the radio chirped. Ronald from Gipsy IV
called. We last saw Ronald and Christine at a do on Santa Cruz in the Galapagos
Islands. He told us in the five weeks he has been here, no-one, but no-one has
ever asked for any permission and certainly no-one from airport control has ever
been heard. Gipsy IV is on a buoy in Apu Bay and is going to typhoon
season at Raiatea Marina. We wished them well and hope to see them “down the
road”.
 We saw a mooring buoy in amongst several charted boats and made our way in.
 Looks like a nice little village ahead.
 To our left Apooiti Marina, just as I took this picture a whole
sequence followed.
    Now, we don’t see
that too often.
 We went to explore the marina after lunch. A very helpful man in a boutique
told us where to buy bread, where to go to fill our propane tank and buy diesel.
An hour before the Chinese corner shop opens, we went for a spuddle to look at
the next marina.
 En route we stopped to look at the reef to our right, would it be worth a snorkel. No.
Just rock and a little hard coral.
 We found a man at Raiatea Marina who told us to come back at eight on Monday
morning and ask for Dominic. He will sort out our gas cylinder.
 This is a haul out marina, near a town
and apparently good chandlers, a must to explore while Dominic does his stuff.
On the hard was a ferry, move in for a closer
look.
 A very poorly
looking girl, with very mashed rudder. A little more than cosmetics
required.
 Back to
Beez after far too much excitement.
ALL IN ALL WE MAY BE GETTING
TIRED OF THE GUSTS
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