Nuku Hiva to Amyot
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Robert (Bob) Parry and Ann Parry
Sun 4 Sep 2011 03:27
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We left Nuku Hiva and sailed to the island of Ua
Pou where we spent the night in an anchorage with spectacular views of the cores
of volcanoes.
 This power boat entered the anchorage at Nuku Hiva
the day we left.
 Approaching Ua Pou.
 The cores of old volcanoes.
 The anchorage at Hakahetau, Ua Pou.
 The anchorage at Hakahetau, Ua Pou.
 The anchorage at Hakahetau, Ua Pou, looking
east.
 The anchorage at Hakahetau, Ua Pou.
We had been undecided whether we would visit any of
the atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago as you need to time your entry into the
passes to the lagoons so that you are there at slack tide and,
ideally, with less than 2m swell and 15 knots of wind. Then we read some
reports by other yachts that had visited Amyot at Toau. The Toau lagoon is
fairly large and Amyot Bay is a blind passage on the northeast side of Toau. It
can be entered and left at any stage of the tide and is well sheltered. There
are two permanent residents, Valentine and Gaston. They live by selling fish to
Papeete, doing copra and renting moorings to visiting yachts, They have a
restaurant where Valentine and Gaston prepare a Polynesian meal. If you go to
their restaurant, the mooring is included. Valentine and her sister also run a
pension with huts right on the water front. The motu on which they live belongs
to Valentine's father and she was raised there.
 Valentine and Gaston live in this idyllic
spot...Probably mostly less than a metre above high
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