Life in Polynesia

We stayed a few more days enjoying Mo'orea after Stuart and Shirley left. One of my favorite things to do each morning is look out my port hole, to refresh my sleepy mind where I am. Not usually disappointed! This was my early April 2018 view.

Then the boat swings in the wind or the current and my view changes to looking right into Cook's bay!

Most nights we pull the dingy up into the davits, but one night we had left the boat in the water because it was already too windy to pick it up. There were some fairly big waves that night, and the next morning we woke to find one fish dead and one fish swimming in the water in the bottom of the dingy!! We saved the live one and got him back into the lagoon.

One day as the sun was setting, we saw one of the local charter boats sailing under the sunlit edge of a cliff. This guy has a great gig, where he takes his Wharram (Polynesian style catamaran) out with guests from the fancy hotels for a sunset sail.

I am sure those guests were also not disappointed either!

Finally it was time to sail back to Tahiti. As we were leaving a cloud burst open and rained on the head of Cook's bay, as tho it was weeping we were going so soon.

But we had work to do on the boat. And Tahiti is the best place for that, with access to many marine stores and supplies. First we had to recaulk one of our port holes which started leaking.

And we also replaced the second bow cleat with the SS one we had been carrying around since Mexico. The old original ones were aluminum and one had died quite a while ago. We knew it was only a matter of time for the other one to go also. Well the day finally came. These look much nicer and stronger!

While at the anchorage near Marina Taina in Tahiti we had a bit of an overcast rainy day. But the local boats were out in force anyway that morning, so we wondered what was going on.

Moments later we saw all the kids racing the Va'a canoes right past our boat. Can you see where the rain caused the muddy water closer to shore. Amazingly it clears up and goes away after only one tidal change.

The parents of the kids were all hooting and hollering, cheering them on from the big party barges that are for rent around here.

As the day wore on the sun turned the rain into a double rainbow. Oh the joy of Tahiti!!

April 26, Liward, a 48 foot gorgeous Hans Christian, (Steve and Lili) hosts another fabulous Rock the Dock party. The guys start warming up around 5pm.

Us girls are ready to rock! Left to right: Lauren from Southern Comfort, our hostess with the mostess Lili, me, and Ellen from Acapella.

The guys are jammin, now that Claude has switched to the fiddle, electric violin!

Rob and Lauren from Southern Comfort out of Australia and Florida respectively. He met her in Fl and they are heading to Oz.

Martin, Ellen's husband on Acappela, plays base guitar. They are from Holland.

It is a pot luck snack food with music. So by now everyone was starting to dig in to all the yummy goodies. That is Hilda, also from Holland on the left in the beautiful dress, and my good friend Debra from the Canadian boat Coastal Drifter sampling the food.

Everyone was sitting around chatting and enjoying the music. That is the good ship Liward across the dock.

Standing behind the crowd is Hiro, a local captain, who hails from the atoll of Maupihaa. Everyone is really enjoying the music now.

Lili abducts Debra's grandson Austin to dance with her. It was a fun night for everyone!