We cleared out of Bora Bora today and should leave during the next favorable weather window tomorrow or the day after. We have loved our time in these islands and both feel it was all to brief, but we'll be back at some point in the future. I'm still working on the Mrs for a second lap around but not sure that will happen.

After clearing out today we stopped in at Ricks (Bloody Marys) for a final lunch and he gave us a pile of paperbacks to read after he heard we were low on our reading material.

Future cruisers should consider staying at their mooring balls. Yes the food can be pricey, but they make no demands that you spend your days there, in fact on our first day they said we could stay for two weeks and they wouldn't care, and hoped they could get us anything we needed including all the water, ice and trash we could use. The moorings are protected from the winds and the field is flat calm when BBYC and the other one (forget the name but its the only other one) are bouncing in wind waves. We also love that a dingy ride from here gets you to all parts of interest on the island; within half an hour ride, we could be in downtown, we fed rays, sharks, swam the coral gardens, and could have swam the mantas. Do give this mooring (under 50 tons) a consideration.

We are heading to Tonga but weather permitting we may make stops on the way at Palmerston or/and Nuie or/and Suwarrow. If we have no stops it should take around two weeks.