Cannons

Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sun 7 Sep 2008 12:56
Hi Folks,
 
Big day out yesterday, though its still blowing a hoolie here we are all hunkered under a hill out the way and the wind gen is pumping loads of amps into our batteries it hasn't done so since the good old Atlantic trades , so we wont need to generate any power today from any noisy source.
 We set off in the afternoon for the other side of the Island in the dingy, full equipped with all the long range stuff req, Radio extra fuel ect , it took 35 mins to get there and we parked our boat in Bora Bora yacht club, it a restaurant , with a couple of mooring buoys around .. a sort of drive by Mc Donald's Bora Bora stylie .. take a buoy and dinning in the restaurant type of thing , anyway we then set off up the mountain trail with some wrought instructions from the tourist information centre , they were spot on half an hr later we were at the gun emplacements , a sort of boyz thing with very dramatic views across the NW side of Bora Bora for the girlies, Lyn still has the knackered so it just Ruth that had to put up with us blokes droning on about these 7" guns , which considering they have been left in the open since 1941 when the USA seized the island and built a runway as a staging post in the war against Japan, very interesting , built in 1908 and 1919 these old guns were probably pulled out of storage after being taken of an old WW1 battle ship , anyway there were built in the New York Ordnance factory  and you could see all the details on the breeches including ser No , fascinating for me and Ike but a tad boring for everybody else , nice lumps of bronze still left on them as well , a good set of 48" stilton's would have gotten me some real momentous of this place ..... 
 
 Back down the hill and into the dingy for a real good soaking on the way back , same as the shopping trip but twice as far ..
 We hope to get up the mountain tomorrow but are still waiting for the winds to die down .. forecast though looks grim with at least another week of this sort of weather, some have mad a run for the cook islands but with poor anchorages in these Islands a tad unwise, bearing in mind what happened to the yachts in Pamerston , the bigger boats that is over 50ft will just find it uncomfortable but some of the 30ft'ers most with families of one or two young kids this would be quite an horrendous trip as the seas are confused and in the 4 to 5 metre band ..
 Anyway its another lazy day and time to try and prod the gen set back into life ! still looking not to good on that front ..
 
The even wetter crew