Land Ho! Marquesas
14 May 2012
Virginia and Dennis Johns
We arrived at Hiva Oa in the Marquesas early morning on Mothers' Day after 23 days and a few hours at sea - yea! We just couldn't escape the rain even in those final days, so while we timed our arrival for daylight hours, the cloud cover was so thick we couldn't see the islands at times. But things cleared up just as we approached the anchorage and so all was well. We hadn't seen any other boats the whole time we were out there, but as we mentioned had been in touch via radio nets. One of our nets was just 5 boats who had left the Galapagos at around the same time. We knew one of the boats and they asked us to join the net. We hadn't met the others, but several are here and so we finally are getting together. In fact we did actually spot one boat, Solstice, just as we were approaching the anchorage - they were about 15 minutes ahead of us. The other boats in the anchorage said they had been getting all that rain here too for the last week and were hoping we brought some sunshine. Well today it has been sunny all day, so far. We never did get the watermaker to work despite numerous emails with techs at Spectra while we were 'out there', so if it rains, it helps to fill the water tanks! Always a bright side. We didn't take many pictures during the crossing, as it looked a lot 'the same'. But we will post a few of the sunsets, sunrises, fish we caught, and rainbows.