After dinner last night Valentine invited Brit & Michelle and I to come ashore this morning and she would show us how to make coconut bread. So at 10:00 we brought our bowls and some flour ashore, where Gaston was wringing the milk from from some freshly grated coconut. During the course of the conversation…
We had decided to stay another day and dive with Warrior and Hello World, but I was still a little concerned about the wind. It was already blowing 5 knots harder than forecast. So when I woke up at 3:00 it seemed like a good time to get a new forecast for a spot mid…
The wind had been relatively quiet the last week, so when we sailed up from Fakarava to Toau we were glad to have some breeze to sail with. Our pass entrance was uneventful and we motored into the pass on the east side with about 3 knots of current and the wind at our backs….
Otherwise known as “Another Day, Another Atoll”. And yes, I do know that it’s only Monday. But here we are anchored in the beautiful atoll of Toau after a quick 15 mile sail up from Fakarava. We ended up not moving to the other anchorage on Tahanea last week because some weather was threatening, so…
We’re still anchored in the atoll of Tahanea in the Tuamotus archipelago of French Polynesia. The ugly weather system that made our entrance here so eventful has mostly moved past. We had a lovely day yesterday and went ashore to explore and did a little snorkel on a reef inside the lagoon. The atolls here…
When we left Seattle three years ago we joked about being “off the grid” as Wally and Dilbert would call it. No phones, no power bills and no cable TV or internet. It seemed like a nice idea at the time, like many ideas do. Reality is that with our sideband radio and modem we’ve…