Made our way from the south end of the Fakarava atoll to the north end where the village is located by following the channel on the inside of the atoll. The channel is marked by red and green buoys every mile or so, but we are also using our Garmin GPS which shows the channel a lot more clearly and it seems pretty accurate. It needs to be too. Outside of the channel there are lots of boat eating coral heads and reef areas. Don climbs part of the way up the mast using the mast steps he installed in Mexico and keeps a good watch. When it's sunny the coral heads are very easy to see but when clouds cover the sun it's a lot harder to spot them. We were able to sail up the channel pretty easily with the wind behind us but the thought of hitting one of those coral bommies is a bit nerve-wracking. We pulled out of the channel about halfway up and found a nice spot to stay for the night and made it to the village the next day. It was pretty blustery when we arrived. We dropped our anchor in about 60 feet of water and decided not to buoy the anchor this time. When the wind clocks around (which it always seems to do) the anchor will get wrapped on coral below, but maybe that's better than waking up in the middle of the night with your anchor and chain buoys knocking on the side of your hull.