18/8/09 - 16.48.75S 150.59.5W - Baie d'Avea

Flying Cloud
Julian Nichols
Tue 18 Aug 2009 18:23
The weather has improved today and the water in this, the most Southerly bay, is the most perfectly clear. So clear that Justin started on his "Grande Bleu" free diving competition - taking photos from underneath the boat.

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11m seemed to be around his record - what lungs!

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After that a spot of lunch in the Mauraii restaurant.

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Finally we upped anchor to motor up to the Te Tiare hotel for dinner, before our midnight departure to Bora Bora.
At the Te Tiare we met Rudy Markmiller, the owner and builder of the hotel - who was very excited to see us return by sail to the hotel where we had our honeymoon.