We arrived at Rangiroa at the 6am slack water and made it safely into the lagoon. After a couple attempts at anchoring (and some abuse from an unfriendly Australian boat who we were no where near) we found a spot and got the anchor down.
Once we had the anchor down Jonny took our spare cqr anchor to Nemesis who had bent theirs retrieving it at Manihi.
After breakfast and finding out the local info from Contrails who had been here for a couple of days we headed ashore for a walk. We ordered some bread from the local shop and walked to the other side of the island where despite it only being a couple of hours later the pass into the lagoon was very rough and unpassable.
The nearest 'proper' town is 8km from the anchorage but we had heard that you could rent bikes from the hotel so we went ashore for a nosy and to find out. The hotel looked very nice but the bike hire was very expensive.
In the afternoon Jonny refused to relax and spent the afternoon scrubbing the bottom of the keel whereas i read my book and had a snooze!!
At 4pm Andy came over with some beers because Jonny had helped him retrieve his anchor earlier and then at 5.30 we had been invited over to Takaroa (An english Rival 38 - Jane and Trevor) for drinks - we havent seen very many english boats since Panama - and we had a nice evening with them.
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