Graptolite - Going to Fakarava

15:30.67S 147:29.54W Friday 11th April AM

The Blue Lagoon, or Lagon Bleu as the French seem to think it's called, gets my vote for being the prettiest place on the planet. It's set on the western edge of the Rangiroa lagoon and is about a mile across, the water is a
really surprisingly bright turquoise colour and the whole place is fringed with small islets covered in palm trees. Best of all, we had it all toourselves.

We anchored Graptolite in the main atoll took the dinghy over some coral reefs between two of the islets and puttered around until we found a good place to swim and collect coconuts. The more European of us frolicked around au naturelle a la Brooke Shields.

We are now on our way to Fakarava atoll. We only decided to go there because we liked the name but it seems that there are other WARC boats gathering there as well before going on to Tahiti.

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