Our trip through the pass in Makemo atoll proved relatively uneventful. It was flowing fairly hard against us (at up to 4 kts) but we just pushed on through like pushing up a flowing river. By carefully picking our way we avoided the worst of the out flowing rapids and before too long we were enjoying the calm of the lagoon in the atoll. We made our first stop in the village of Pouheva - Makemo's main town. The island has a population of about 300 and the village is a busy wee place - there seem to be lots of young people about and plenty of sports happening in the large covered games court area that dominates the landing area. There are three shops, good wifi, a restaurant, a laundry, ice cream, baguettes - basically everything a passing sailor needs. And the people are super-friendly. Quite a cool place really. Turns out there are about 15 boats in here today. This is more boats than we have seen for a while and apparently more boats at once than the village has seen all year. In the afternoon we went out to snorkel on one of the large bommies that rises up from the bottom of the lagoon. These are essentially large fairly circular coral reefs that rise relatively steeply from about 15-20m growing right up towards the surface. The top of a bommie could be 50 m across and the whole thing is made of coral. This is the first time we have motored out to one and swum right round it. It was well worth doing - lots of fish, some new species, no sharks, and excellent healthy coral. In the evening we treated ourselves to dinner ashore.