Sunday, 25th April 2010 Tahiti, South Pacific
We had a very slow get up in this wonderful place, we listened to the traffic race up and down the quayside from an early hour. Thats it, we are back in civilized society. Plenty of air and noise pollution. Of the 270,000 people on the French Polynesian Islands, 230,000 of them live here on this Island, hence all the noise, and another thing... no Bantam Cocks crowing in the morning, we miss that lovely sound... or maybe they are just being drowned out by the noise of all the traffic.
Donal took off in a taxi in search of that elusive polynesian doll that Clayton wants him to shack up with or elope with
and the Skipper would get a big bonus...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch (boat) Aileen caught up with a load of washing and skipper did lots of fiddling around,
including setting up the new " Hubbel " connector for the shore power cable. When complete, we hooked up to the shore power and for the first time since Rodney Bay in St. Lucia, last January, now we have shore power.
mind you we are not getting enough amps, but at least its a continuous supply of power to the flayed out batteries.
Later we (A& S) got a taxi to the Intercontinental Hotel for a gawk around, and while we were there we had a light lunch, Aileen had her usual rabbit food (Lettuce) while the skipper was slightly more adventurous with an omelette...
We arrived back to the boat where Donal was in the middle of preparing dinner for us and our guests tonight. Guests included Bob & Maggie with Jimmy & Anna from Ocean Jasper and the three of us...
Dinner consisted of Fillet steak (done to your wishes) with rice and veg. Very tasty, even without the usual dose of gravy desert consisted of strawberries, bananas and cream. All in all, very, very good and we ate dinner in the cockpit, under the stars with background music playing on board.
We discussed everything you could think of, but really got interesting when we discussed history and the impact of
people like Ganges Kahn, Ceaser, Hitler, George W Bush, Stalin, Mao, a few different Popes and of course Ian Paisley.
To be continued at a later date...
Thats it,
Stephen Hyde (Skipper )