Graptolite - A Plain Vanilla Day
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Thu 15 May 2008 07:33
In the morning we sailed about 6 miles across the lagoon between Tahaa and
Raiatea. While going ashore in the dinghy there was an idyllic scene with
waving coconut palms, yellow flowers that had fallen from trees into the
blue water and two girls on a surfboard having a floating picnic. I mention
this because it was only about fifty metres from the end of the Raiatea
airport runway. Eat your heart out Staines!
The trip to Raiatea was to do a bit of shopping for oil filters and new
cameras. We had no success with either though we did bump into Jean and Jim
from 'Island Prism' and had a beer. As we sailed back to Tahaa, there was
the usual outrageous sunset over Bora Bora and also the scent of vanilla and
wood smoke in the air.
M