Kirk Groehnert | Mostly cloudy

From Tahuata Island, we went to the southern most island of Fatu Hiva. This is a famously beautiful island, particularly the Hanavave bay anchorage. It was a very beautiful anchorage with steep rugged mountains surrounding a small bay with a small village at the center of it. Of course, it was crowded with boats too!
These little villages are kind of simple and have there own little charm. There is infrastructure which I assume comes as a benefit of being part of France. They have paved roads, water, electricity and telephone which is not always the case in Latin America. Always very clean too - People sweeping up bits of leaves and trash (if any) as they walk. This is a rare sight anywhere.
The smaller villages don't really have any marked store fronts or restaurants, however, but we are finding that various people do different skills within the village. For example, there was no restaurant but there were two different people that would cook a meal for us with enough people (about six) and a day notice to prepare. We didn't have the required minimum to set something like that up but maybe we will in another anchorage. It might be fun to do that and I have feeling there might be one or two less goats or chickens wandering around the island if we did!
We did do a short hike into the Hanavave Village and met several locals who are all so nice, offering us fruit and helping us find our way.
After spending about 3 nights there, we decided to head north to Nuku Hiva which is the most populated island although still far less than anything like Hawaii - around 3,000 people here.
We just arrived here this morning after an overnight 130 mile trip. The bay we pulled into has no other boats and is well protected. There are only some locals here and road leading to other villages. We will travel around this island before setting sail for the Tuamotus Island chain, about 500 miles away and 4 days travel.