Monday 8 June 2009

7th June; Manihi, Tumaotus, French Polynesia

After a lovely curry onboard White Hawk the previous evening we had a lazy start to the day with coffee and pancakes for breakfast. I went up the mast to re-align the wind instruments before our next passage (knocked over by a bird en-route from the Marquesas) and then sat out a series of rain squalls!
We headed over to the beach to collect coconuts (think we have really 'Gone Troppo!') which are much harder to harvest than they look. After an hour of stripping bark and cracking nuts we had two decent coconuts to collect meat from.
We then went over to Mikado for a drink and to say goodbye, and then over to Maya 3 which arrived into the lagoon (we haven't seen Colin on Maya 3 since Lanzarote). We then went back to Newt and had Jeff and Kirsty from Nemesis and Andy from Calysta over for beers before tea.
All in all a busy day - we went to sleep listening to the anchor chain rumbling on coral and working out how many beers it would cost us to get Paul from White Hawk to free it for us in the morning!

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