Graptolite - A Little Money Laundering
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Wed 14 May 2008 13:29
Now in Tahaa, we were on a mooring off the Yacht Club on Monday night. We
had no adventures worth reporting in getting here.
Jean has loaned herself out to another boat called 'Island Prism' for a
little while. Canadian Jim was sailing single-handed and needed the help.
This morning we were a water taxi and took Heike and Bill to the
ridiculously luxurious 'Le Tahaa Resort' on a little motu off Tahaa. We had
a fabulous lunch as taxi fare. Then Colin and I tried to get back into the
dinghy. Appreciate that we have done this operation countless times before.
Appreciate that we have done this in darkness and well sozzled without
mishap. Appreciate that on this occasion we had nothing but water with lunch
and it was broad daylight. Anyway we both somehow managed to end up in the
sea, wallets soaked and cameras ruined. We provided some amusement to the
otherwise bored staff of the resort but that was the only upside.
Leaving the resort, we turned left to go clockwise inside the reef looking
for another anchorage. There was some very nice warm rain with bright
rainbows and then a good sunset over the peaks of Bora Bora to the west.
Then it got dark then and we didn't find any good place to moor until we had
done a full circumnavigation inside the reef of Tahaa and were back were we
started in the morning. The Pearl Regatta had in the meantime also arrived
at the same spot and a mooring buoy was hard to find. In the Yacht Club
there was yet another Polynesian dance show to be watched. (They are OK
really).
M