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Before our shoreside activities we spent some time refining our plans (which may of course change) for the next month or so. The main change is that we now plan to visit Aitutaki in the Southern Cooks and skip Rarotonga. Our path to Tonga is now Raiaritea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Maupiti, Maupihaa, Aitutaki, Palmerston, (possibly) […] After the net and picking up fresh (but not so nice) bread we set sail for Raiatea. We raised sails shortly after raising the anchor and left the sheltered waters behind the reef under sail. We left behind our ‘friends’ on the customs vessel who had just started boarding some of the other vessels in […] Mid morning we upped anchor and quickly raised the head sail to plod slowly up inside the reef. We had about a knot of current so despite less than ideal sailing conditions we managed to average around 4 knots. We were on the lookout for a spot to go snorkeling before lunch. In the end […] Overnight there had been only two other boats in the anchorage. By the time we were up there was only one. The tides here are less than a foot but even so they were rising in the morning so Ben and I decided to go and snorkel the pass around the corner hoping to get […] We had a pleasant motor sail down the west coast behind the reef. The channel was quite wide so there were no moments where we needed to take great care although we maintained a double watch throughout. We made our way all the way down to Baie d’Aves which is about as far as one […] |
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