Fai Tira Blog Thursday 21th April

Fai Tira anchored at Nuka Hiva  08:55.09S 140:05.87W

 

Sorry about the delay in posting our latest blog.

As promised I will be showing you lots of photos of our trip to Fata Hiva and our adventures at the Bay of Virgins followed by our short stop at Tahuata injected with a bit of text.

 

 

This is the GPS showing us that we only had 1000 miles to go to Fata Hiva. A significant point in our journey of 3300.

 

    

 

The best bit of our 24 day journey were the amazing sun sets and sunrises not to mention the fabulous moon lit nights.

 

 

This is the wonderful Soda bread John made.  The person sitting next to John is our new crew member David.

 

 

 

This was our first sighting of land after 23 days. Unfortunately it was at 6:00pm and we didn’t have time to make landfall in the light.  We decided to take all the sails down and drift overnight until first light. Fai Tira rocked and rolled without any sail cloth up and we all spent a very uncomfortable night.

 

 

 

The next morning we were greeted by a fantastic sunrise over the island. We only had 5 miles to go to the Bay of Virgins.

 

 

 

Our first views of one of  the most spectacular anchorages in the world, the Bay of Virgins.

 

 

 

Fai Tira anchored at last.  Lets get to shore me matey’s

 

 

Wow, why is the land going up and down?  We made it 24 days at sea and still smiling.

 

  

 

We dicided to walk to a waterfal the crusing book recomended.  On the way we bumped into one of our fellow BWR skippers who hadn’t faired so well coming across from Galapagos.

His name if you dont recognise him is Jeremy from Chsalonina.

 

 

The waterfall was not very spectacular because of the lack of water. 

 

 

But we did have a dip in the cool water.  In the picture with John and David is Jane a crew member from Chsalonina.

 

  

 

One of the local children and his pet goat.  We had a great time at his house with his family giving us friut and drinks after our 2 hours trek up to the waterfall.

 

 

That evening we went to a local house and had meal together with the crew of Chsalonina.  On the menu was local kitten!!!  The food was delicious especially the fish marinated in lime and coconut milk.

 

I was joking about the kitten.

 

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The next day we headed off to Tahuata.  We arrived just as it got dark. 

We went for a swim and John cooked the evening meal before we set off on an overnight sail to  Nuka Hiva   arriving the next day at mid day.

 

More blog updates tomorrow.  We need to get down to the bar now.

 

 

 

Bye for now Pete, John and David.