Farewell to the Marquesas Islands

Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Mon 25 May 2009 19:00
The Marquesas were amazing, we very much enjoyed our time there and were sad to move on. We met many other boats doing the same thing and no doubt we will meet some of them again on the way to New Zealand and beyond. We went back to the main town on Nuku Hiva to go to the Saturday fresh food market at 05.00 hrs. We got what we wanted, including a 3kg slice of Yellow Fin tuna. We have been catching Skipjack tuna, but Yellow Fin is the best. The locals use it raw in many delicious dishes. We are enjoying the fish in raw and cooked form.
Saturday was also the day for the canoe marathon in the bay. We were asked to dress the boat up overall, which we duely did.
We are just over half way now on our way to Raroia, the first of the Tuamoto Islands we intend to visit. There is not much wind, but we are sailing making slow progress. The sun is out and it is getting pretty warm. We had a little hitch hiker on board yesterday, unfortunately Duncan found it dead on the aft deck this morning.
 
             
 
            Our slice of tuna being packed up                              Sea Topaz "dressed overall" for the canoe race                                      Our hitch hiker