Aloa
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Thu 19 Jun 2008 03:19
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Hi All,
Still at anchor in Atuona bay soaking up the
ambiance of the area, although its been a maintenance day which included a
mounting of washing , oil changes , impeller changes,water up tanks from shore ,
200 litre , and numerous other chores , we are trying to get everything done by
tonight as we have a car hired for tomorrow as we are going to tour the island ,
off to visit the hieroglyphs ( stone carvings ) like they have on Easter Island
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We then intend to go to a more stable anchorage on
the island of Tahuata to repair the mast spinnaker track with my MONEL pop
rivets, and to clean the hull , these islands have small villages so we
should be able to find a secluded beach for our barbi of some of our fish , we
will have to butter up with repellent as the little nonos as they call them have
a bight like a cobra , painful , although I found in the bar we went to the
other night that rubbing myself down with the leftovers of the sweet grapefruit
we ate kept the little buggers off , they all laughed , the French thought I was
mad but I might have looked like a fruit salad but I dint get bitten so there as
tip when you go foreign don't waist you left over skins, have a quick rubdown
before you leave the bar, the only thing I got bittern by was the bill at 26
nicker for eight beers and a complementary grapefruit .....
Three bitten one smelling like a fruit
salad
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