Underwater Surprise
29 November 2020 | Airport Anchorage, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Graham Walker
We have really enjoyed our couple of nights out at anchor surrounded by blue water, relaxing with the gentle motion of the boat. There are a few boats out here with us and on one nearby there is a French family who are sailing round the world. The children are very small, perhaps 2-4. The parents have already started teaching the kids to sail and are taking them out for lessons on a small windsurfer. Lovely to watch them learning to push themselves along with the breeze.
We went to a couple of snorkelling sites near the boat. The first was OK but the corals were not in very good condition, so we moved down to a site called The Aquarium. It’s almost in line with the end of the airport runway and revealed an interesting plane wreck. This is also where Kate did her ‘baptism’ scuba dive.
We will head back to Papeete Marina this afternoon to start on the final push. Whilst we have been out here we have been able to test our new charging system (OK so far) and make sure the water maker is working (which it is). We are missing our sprayhood, which normally makes a good shade and windbreak but is with the sailmakers right now, so have rigged a boom tent using a hi-viz orange tarp we have as part of our safety kit. Nice to see just how visible we are at a fair distance. We’re probably identifiable on satellite.