27 August 2011

If you're going to have 3 extra boat kids for a sleepover, then take a leaf out of my book and take them all for a 5 hour walk first. It guarantees they will all be asleep by 8.30pm, 3 of the 5 children actually asking if they can go to bed! The extra children? From Luna, a Danish boat. I am so impressed with their English. The 12 and 9 year old can pretty much have a conversation with us. I had popped over to Luna to ask for the waypoint for the Southern Pass anchorage and the boys were keen to play with Lochy. As we had already arranged to go for a walk with the Italian family, we invited them along too. This time we turned left along the long flat road, and we enjoyed the usual - climbing coconut trees, racing hermit crabs, finding pearls and paddling with sharks - as you do on a Saturday morning stroll! Back to find the diving school had rescued our dinghy which, despite the fact that we had dragged it up over the tide line, had drifted off due to the largest tide for years, a result of the cyclone over New York at the moment. The Tuamotus are on 'Code Red' weather wise, due to the high swell around the area and no boats are allowed to enter or leave the atolls until the swell dies down. So, we decided against going to the Southern pass today, instead, having the 3 Luna kids over for a sleepover. The swell should all die down in a couple of days, so we'll head off again soon to pick up our Satelite phone that has been delivered to Tahiti. After we've had tea with Tom and Katie!