Blog 46. Raiatea and goodbye French Poynesia. 16.43.79S 151.26.56W
Alcedo
David Batten
Mon 16 May 2016 05:54
Thursday we hired a car to see the Island as we did not have time to do it by boat. We particularly wanted to see the Marae Taputapuatea complex, the most important Marae in French Ploynesia, which was impressive and somewhat spoilt by the continuing rain, a main feature of our visit so far. Evening was a WARC supper in La Cubana Restaurant, better than we expected, the usual great, sensuous display of traditional dancing followed by a dancing free for all, much enjoyed by the keen dancers amongst the WARC members. Sadly, not everyone was able to attend because of the high winds and it must have been a horrible dinghy ride in wind and rain.
Friday was Skippers' briefing, shopping for and stowing provisions, which was mainly fruit, chocolate, pate and cheese before we leave the French influence and there being not much in the way of vegetables. Oh and more rain.
Tomorrow we set off for Suwarrow. We are going to go early as we have to leave the Quay by 8.00 and we do not want to hang around until 10.00 for another start with some newly imposed rules about no engines, sails up etc in the confines of the reefs when we have no intention of racing.
ALCEDO.
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