We arrived into the anchorage off the main town, Fare, about 7.30am and found a lovely spot to anchor – unfortunately there is a lot of wind expected over the next few days and it was blowing straight down the lagoon into the anchorage with some 35knot gusts. We decided to head ashore to explore. The town was nice with an unexpectedly large supermarket. We also looked into prices for bike, scooter and car hire as we would like to spend a day exploring the island. Back at the boat there was still huge gusts coming through the anchorage so we decided to head down the lagoon to find a more sheltered spot. We motored into one bay that was flat calm but 25m deep so we decided to try and find a shallower spot. We motored round a couple of places but didn't find anywhere better when a local guy in a outrigger canoe paddled over and told us he had a mooring buoy. We followed him and the buoy was in an ideal location off a lovely beach. He said he was the guardian of the beach and we could come ashore later and get some fruit.
After a quick swim we headed ashore to say hello to the local guy. He seemed like a very friendly nice guy. Whilst we were ashore another boat came into the bay and saw us on the buoy, a dinghy from the boat came ashore and the guy from the boat wanted us moved off the buoy because he wanted to go on it and as he was French he should have priority – the local guy said that we were first on the buoy and therefore we were staying there. The guy didn't want to accept this and when we walk off down the beach he stood their sulking!! We ended up 'hiding' in the jungle behind the beach to try and make the guy leave and finally he did!! The local guy invited us for a bbq on the beach the following night and also arranged to meet us on the beach in the morning to get some fruit.
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