Kauehi, Tuamotus
Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Fri 12 Jun 2009 05:40
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15.49.193 S 145.07.095 W
There is not that much to do in Kauehi, especially
when it is windy and wet. So the weather is not always nice in paradise either.
We ended up doing various jobs on the boat, like repairing the dinghy cover,
repainting rust patches on the upper deck. Duncan even got the guitar out again
and has been practicing every day for a few days now, making some progress. We
have been here for four days, the first two were sunny. On day two we visited
another pearl farm. It was very interesting to see how different this one was
from the one on Raroia. This one also had Chinese girls working as grafters, but
the owner was a local.I ended up as interpreter for an American couple that came
with us.
Ewan is due to arrive tomorrow, so I have been
baking butter cakes amongst other things. We had two giant manta rays doing
summersaults in the water late this afternoon, showing their white bellies. We
have several sucker fish (Remoras) under the boat. I hope they do a good job
cleaning the hull.
We will have a couple of days here with Ewan and
his crew. They might want to visit the pearl farm too. Then we will move to
Fakarava, a bigger atoll with more facilities for tourists. (And another pearl
farm to visit. Sofar we have not actually seen any pearls yet let alone bought
any).
  A refreshing coconut drink, the owner/guide in the
centre Oyster shells ready to go back into
the water
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