Raroia, Tuamotos
Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Fri 29 May 2009 22:22
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16.04.774 S 142.22.346 W
After four days of gentle sailing and motoring we
arrived at the first of the Tuamotos Islands that we intend to visit. The
Marquesas Islands were very mountainous the Tuamotus on the other hand are almost all atolls, with
the highest thing being a palm tree. The atoll usually encircles a lagoon
and if you can get into it then there is a lovely idyllic aquamarine water,
white sand, palm tree setting. The passes into some of the atolls are pretty
scary. When we arrived at this one we could see the standing waves, we took a
closer look, which made me quite nervous, but we decided to wait for slack water
and then go in. When we did go we still had 5 knots against us. If we had waited
for another hour or so we would have seen that it does go calm briefly. Anyway
we are in and anchored off our own little island with white sand, blue water and
palm trees. We went snorkeling this morning which was very nice. We were more
successful this time with the underwater camera. We will stay here for a few
days as the forecast is for stronger winds. Duncan is planning to do some
windsurfing.
 
 Sea Topaz anchored off the village,
Raroia
Our own little island to explore
The underwater world we saw this morning
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