After hours of exchanging messages until past my midnight, with my OBM at home, to get my new dinghy paid for, I really was knocked down. I spent yesterday hours on this matter and I’m very grateful to my OBM for her support. At the end she learned from Visa in Japan that there is something wrong with the payment link I received.

As the network is so weak in this area, only Signal messages could be exchanged. Fortunately I also have my satellite email address. But no attachment are possible.

So I’m still back to square 1 and have to ask my back in Germany to make a transfer for me. Currently I’m waiting for the IBAN and BIC number for the vendors back account. Additionally the not functioning link most likely triggered a security measure and my credit card is blocked. Satellite phone call could be the solution.

This morning, as planned yesterday, we just motored around the corner into the next bay, the Hatiheu Bay.

The bay has a beautiful scenery and huge sandy area for dropping the hook. However, the NE swell runs into the bay due to the diffraction of waves. A natural, physical behavior of waves, which can’t be changed.

Fortunately, MaRe doesn’t roll like a monohull but she also rocks bit in this swell.

The worst effect of the incoming swell is that landing with the dinghy at the tiny pier is not possible. Seen through the binoculars, the swell there is at least 1 m; simply too high.

The mountains at the end of the bay look like a barrier perpendicular to the centerline into to bay. Fully green up to the top, with almost all the 45 – 60 deg slopes are covered with trees.
Less high but of similar form but much lower are the volcanic remnants on the eastern side. The western shore remnants are higher than the eastern shore one but lower then the ones at the end of the bay. However, there are 3 peaks standing up from the surrounding. The peaks have have craggy vertical wall. An interesting remnant of volcanic outbreaks of a very different material.

All large percentage of the trees around the bay are coconuts palms. They indicate that there was quite a lot of Copra production a while ago. BTW, in all villages, I visited so far in the Marquesas, I saw Copra production places still these days. However, the production is on a really small scale.

As a walk or hike is not possible here we’ll continue further west already tomorrow morning. Just around the NW corner of Nuku-Hiva is a bay I want to look at.