Heading for Bora Bora
Hebe
Mon 28 Apr 2014 19:28
27th April 2014 16:42:73S 151:02:40W First sail without our trusty crew….off to Moorea with Louise and Phil. An inauspicious start with both of them very soon laid out in the cockpit clutching buckets and groaning. Admittedly it was rather rolly Phil had clearly not got as far as the Preparing for Sea chapter in his RYA book before it was destroyed when the waves poured in through their side hatch. Competent crew. See Louise fishing…no luck yet and Sophie had to scuba down to retrieve a lost lure - got all the kit ! Wind kicking up the sea and flapping the sails alarmingly. No one slept as Hebe behaved really rather badly making Phil imagine we were going to sink. I really think she's missing H Boss and Imo…. Dawn brought the island of Huahine and we found a lovely anchorage though the stranded catamaran on the reef was a salutary lesson on anchoring. But all's well and here we are in front of yet another Bali Hai Hotel, there must be one on every island. We had lots to watch with the salvage guys hauling the catamaran off and surfers zooming along. Huahine is quite small about 6 miles by 3, but when we dinghied over to shore we found the most enormous warehouse shop packed to the roof with groceries, Whiteparish eat your heart out. Aisles of unheard of French wine, clearly they send all the rubbish out here. We plan to sail up to Bora Bora on Tuesday and Sophie and Ali leave on Thursday…..it has just all gone like a flash….but very special. Looking forward to having Jonny and Kath aboard next in Fiji,,,,but that's a thousand miles away. You can just see Bora Bora from here, in the evening sun, like a blue wedding cake shimmering on the horizon. Classic poses - Sophie taking pics and Ali sampling the local brew, this one is called Delirium Tremens. |