During the last days I was busy with cleaning hulls. After having been in Hiva-Oa’s Tahauku Bay for a bit more than 3 month some stuff grew at the underwater hulls. This, I wanted to clean off in the clear water of the Vaitahu Bay of Tahuata island.<\/p>\n
Further I wanted to make water, and do some laundry. I also wanted to get some fresh fruits I hope to find someone who gives out sells me fresh fruits.<\/p>\n
The nice thing in this bay is the rather constant and strong wind coming down the mountains. MaRe swung only +- 10 deg. The rather good windspeed kept my SuperWind 350 pretty busy. During the night it almost produced as much was was needed for lights and especially for the two fridges.<\/p>\n
During the day I could see always a pod of a smaller kind of dolphins. For hours they swam in the bay being obviously busy with hunting fishes.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, after finishing the work at the hulls, I lowered the tender into the water and dinghied to land. As expected, a stern anchor was needed due to the swell and wind.<\/p>\n
I walked into the village. Many houses were built to be covered with trees. Just as it looks from MaRe in the bay. As I practice French since a while, asking a man I met on the street allowed me to have a simple conversation and asked for fruits. Here in Vaitahu one can really get fresh fruits; in the supermarket of Atuona, fruits are old already when they arrive in the shelf.
\nI was lucky, the first man in asked told me to follow him and I got pampelmouse (shaddocks), oranges, and limes. He also wanted to give me a breadfruit but the tool to plug them from the tree was too weak or the fruit was hanging too high… Happy with what I got, I went back to MaRe’s tender.<\/p>\n
Before going to MaRe, I decided to go the neighboring boat to say hello and good bye because I wanted to leave shortly after midnight. They were only a bit more then 100 m away from MaRe and we could we only good greet each other by waving our hands when I arrived. They are a very friendly couple sailing very relaxed, staying in this bay already for a week doing lots of hiking to explore the area around the bay including the village. In a few weeks I hope to return there with 2 sailing partners, Sam(antha) and Inge. It’s really a nice place.<\/p>\n
At the end Jo & Gerry came with me to MaRe to get some mother-yoghurt. Thanks to our friends Nora & Hacko of SY Anixu, I can make now very good yoghurt from powered milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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