Apologies to our viewers! We have been offline for quite a while now, at the time when we thought we would have easy-ish internet access. Turns out remote islands in the South Pacific are exactly that. Communication is difficult! A couple of companies offer internet service here in the anchorage off of town, but they were weak connections, and pricey, as in they charge your credit card but you don�'t actually get an internet connection. So we are back to the satellite phone method, but that means we can�'t actually see the blog ourselves and be able to check that our photos are successfully uploading.

We�'ve spent about a week ping-ponging back and forth from the island of Hiva Oa, where we first landed and where town is, and Tahuata, a lovely island a few miles away. We, as in Steve, have been working on boat repairs. The real �'we�' have also been organizing the boat for comfortable living. Without the massive provisions, fuel, and water we started out with, Endless Summer is light on her feet again, and we have more room on the interior. It feels good. Yesterday, we celebrated our four year anniversary (of dating) and we realized there was nothing we could do to make our day more romantic than it already was. We are floating by ourselves in a postcard perfect cove, complete with palm fringed white sand beach, black lava cliffs, and clear aquamarine water. This is not a situation that is easy to improve upon. But we did make brownies and watch a movie. This, by the way, was the first use of our new dutch oven, which we put inside our boat�'s oven to even out its very erratic heat. Even though we fought with a mere 150 degree variation in temperature over the course of the baking, the brownies came out great!

Tomorrow morning around 6am- I am proud to report for those folks who have dubbed us Endless Slumber- we will set sail for Ua Huka or Ua Pou. I�'m hoping for Ua Huka which is known for its wild horses and wood sculptors. But if the wind doesn�'t favor the course of sail we need to get there, we�'ll fall off to Ua Pou, which is probably just as interesting to see anyways. After a couple of days there, we�'ll likely head for the Tuomotu archipelago of coral atolls. That will entail around 4 days of passage making, which used to seem like a big deal, but after our 3 weeks at sea seems like nothing. Stay tuned�.