S 16-03.4 by W 145-37.6 – This morning we went scuba diving. Special Blend had highly recommended the Fakarava Dive Center and we had booked an appointment the day before while in town. The dive master and his wife picked us up from Kosmos and took us out to a reef inside the lagoon near the north pass. It was just the two of us. The dive master adjusted Christi’s weights, saying she had too much. We loaded into our gear and jumped in.
Today Christi started the day by grudgingly performing a rain dance. Out came the brush, soap and hose. It always worked with the car, maybe it would work with the boat. She only washed the areas most in need of a good scrubbing, clinging to the hope that the rain dance would work and Mother Nature would take care of the rest. Oh, and Brad from Special Blend retrieved our ropes for us. Thank you Brad! Continue reading
Ok, we caught up on pictures, now back to general updates…
This morning when we tried to pull up anchor, the chain didn’t come up at all. As we suspected, it was tightly wound around the coral. We had to do a lot of maneuvering of the boat to get it unwound, but we got the anchor up without having to go in and untangle it.
As we left, the water was very calm in the lagoon. Until we Continue reading
Approaching the pass (break in the land deep enough for a boat to get through to the lagoon) into Apataki. Manihi and Fakarava both look much the same from the distance as you approach them, low strips of land with a lot of vegetation.
Kosmos anchored in the distance. Look at how calm it is. Continue reading
We had several blog posts from Manihi (see subsequent posts after first one), and we have lots of pictures. Here is part two. And perhaps we will have to have voting on the best sunset pictures. Some nice ones at the end here, and we got more coming!
Close up of the “rocks” on the beach.
Standing on the Continue reading