1 September 2011

Well, yesterday saw more of the same - sharks moseying on by for breakfast scraps, a dinghy ride to the South pass for another amazing snorkel, and paddling in the most awesome clear water - this place is just phenominal! The dive school had kindly arranged for our bikes to be transported down from the Northern pass, but when they hadn't arrived by 4pm, the kids needed food and we were hot and tired so we headed back to the boat. Just as we arrived back, we saw the boat arrive, so we resigned ourselves to leaving today instead. Mark picked the bikes up and found out that slack tide was at 11.30, the best time to go through the pass. Lifting the anchor was nerve-wracking as we had anchored in coral. Indeed, we got the chain caught on a coral head, but the visibility was so good, we could easily see how to unravel it from the rocks and after then, it came up fine. We negotiated the corl heads our of the pass and are now sailing towards Tahiti, albeit slowly as the wind is slight. Oh to be flying a massive spinnekar out the front of the boat! Current posn: 16.38S 145.34W