16:36.30S 151:33.42W Wednesday PM anchored off Le Tahaa Resort, Tahaa
In the morning we sailed about 6 miles across the lagoon between Tahaa and Raiatea. While going ashore in the dinghy there was an idyllic scene with waving coconut palms, yellow flowers that had fallen from trees into the blue water and two girls on a surfboard having a floating picnic. I mention this because it was only about fifty metres from the end of the Raiatea airport runway. Eat your heart out Staines!
The trip to Raiatea was to do a bit of shopping for oil filters and new cameras. We had no success with either though we did bump into Jean and Jim from 'Island Prism' and had a beer. As we sailed back to Tahaa, there was
the usual outrageous sunset over Bora Bora and also the scent of vanilla and wood smoke in the air.
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