That is why the rays come very close and sometimes almost crawl against you. The rays are fed and stroked by the locals who come to the islands (motus) for a picnic. While kayaking we were able to snorkel with the current adrift and between rays and blacktip reef sharks. We spent the entire week lounging on our veranda, hiking to the magic mountain and the tree coconuts pass with beautiful views over the reef, marveling at all the blue colors of the sea here and making long kayak trips.
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Fare Tokohau from local Tea and Frenchman Alex was a very relaxed mini holiday park with 5 houses right by the sea, 2 lovely children, dogs, cats, chickens and free bicycles and kayaks. To make a virtue of necessity we took the ferry the day after to Moorea (where we were almost with the sailboat) and had a wonderful week in a bungalow. Big disappointment of course, but we have long been happy that we discovered it in a safe situation and could sail back smoothly to the main island.Īs mentioned earlier, we were eager to leave 2 weeks ago, to be short, we are still / already in Tahiti and still eager to leave. The propeller had to be ordered in France and it will take a week to arrive. Fortunately, Nikki and David were very relaxed and with a beer at the Coconut Station (gas station in the harbor) we recovered from our first adventure. Just before dark we were back after a long journey (because slowly on 1 engine and against the wind) where we came from. After consultation with Nikki and David we returned on 1 motor and some sail against the wind to Tahiti. But oddly enough, the port propeller did nothing, after looking 4x (Menno also underwater) the propeller was no longer there! Very bizarre and very annoying. Just before the pass (entrance to the reef) we checked the engines as advised (we have 2, 1 in each hull) we had received this tip last minute from David. There was a long shower with a lot of wind, so we took off halfway the mainsail but the boat did very relaxed in the high waves and strong wind. With beautiful weather we left with the tailwind to Moorea 20 km away. Menno steered smoothly away from the tank jetty and between all the training optimists and catamarans. then depending on the weather we will leave for Moorea sometime in the coming days In short, we are almost ready to let go, tomorrow the owners will come and we will receive more information about the boat and a new chartplotter.
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The first evening Menno went to buy fish at the fish auction nearby but it turned out to be closed, then he got a yellow fin tuna from a local fisherman for free and we filleted it together! We have to get used to a boat on a moring, 100 new sounds and the past few nights we had to get out of bed to close windows, to fasten dinghy better or to bring in laundry … We already have the boat and cleaned the waterline, tried the water maker, practiced yogurt and bread (yogurt great success, practice bread for a while) pulled out all the cupboards and went shopping for 3 months yesterday. So for the past few days we have enjoyed a hotel room with a 360 * view, a lovely bed (4 bedrooms to choose from) and a 5 minute boat trip with a reef with the most beautiful fish and even dolphins and a turtle on the way! The owners are still in France, but we can stay with them. These cozy type of food trucks are everywhere and are really great! January 2 we boarded our floating palace called Daisho.
Super nice here! In the evening delicious poisson Cru (raw tuna in coconut sauce, everything with raw fish is popular here) eaten at a roulotte. New Year’s Eve in town celebrated in a bar, with never so little fireworks but dancing to tropical live music and at 00:00 all firefighters drove through the city with sirens … With New Year just like the Tahitians swam at the visited river, waterfalls and beaches, everywhere it was very nice with many locals with BBQ and very loud music and very large pickups.
On New Year’s Eve drove around the west side of Tahiti, swam on all the beautiful beaches and bought a flower wreath (without flowers in your hair you don’t belong here and on holidays all women have a flower wreath :)). We have been in Tahiti for almost a week and almost used to the enormous heat here, but we are used to the relaxed life and beautiful island! The first nights we slept in a chill guesthouse and thought we would quietly explore Papeete, but with New Year’s Eve everything was closed here, so we rented a car on New Year’s Eve.