6/08/2008 Snorkeling in the Tetamanu pass (Fakarava, Tuamotus ,French Polynesia). After 6 hours of boisterous sail from Kauehi, we arrived to the south end of Fakarava. The pass is impressive with breakers on each side but it is pretty large and ok if you go through around slack tide. The anchorage is beautiful but our anchor got wrapped around a coral head at first, we managed to get it off and re-anchored, still pretty much in the middle of coral heads, there is not much sand patches (we checked with our mask) but this time we buoying our anchor for later retrieval, hopefully that will work otherwise we will have to dive for it, it is pretty deep . 6/9/2008- The next day, we decided to try snorkeling the pass at slack tide, it was about 2:30 but the sun was not shinning making for a lower visibility at first, but it was nevertheless beautiful. The yellow, white and pink corals, all the different small colorful fishes and the majestic king of the sea, Mr. Black Tip shark We saw sting rays, enormous parrot fishes, groupers, and many more fishes we had never seen before, it was so fantastic, we did it twice, and we can hardly wait to do it again tomorrow, the visibility should be even greater if the sun is fully there!!!! Notre depart de Kauehi pour Fakarava a ete beni par des vents de 25-28 noeuds, donc un voyage rapide puis l'entr�e de la passe de Tetamanu au sud de Fakarava. Cela est un peu intimidant car on peut voir les vagues cassant sur les recifs de chaque cote de la passe mais en fait le passage est large et tout s'est tres bien pass�. Nous avons mouille juste derriere la pass� dans une eau turquoise, c'est tres joli Le lendemain, a 14h30, nous sommes tous alles plonger la passe au changement de mare (le courant s'arrete), et quelle experience L'eau est transparente et le corail rose, blanc, jaune avec une multitude de poisons colores .magnifique!!!! Le soleil n'etait pas totalement la et la visibilite peut etre encore meilleure donc nous retournons cet apr�s-midi!!!! Nous avons vu tellement de varietes differentes de poissons et puis le roi de l'ocean le requin a ailerons noirs, tres beau et innofensif (tant que vous ne vous amusez pas a lui toucher la queue ) les requins que j'aime.