Another beautiful day in a very beautiful bay. We are only about ten miles from Hiva Oa on the west side of Tahuata in the bay Hanamoenoa. The blue water runs up to the beach slowly getting lighter and ends on a beautiful white sand beach fringed with palm trees. There is no village and the place seems to only be occupied when they harvest the coconuts and process the copra. The water is beautifully clear and there are plenty of fish.. fairly large one at that. I have caught and released some including a good sized white tip reef shark. The reef fish here are not safe to eat as there is ciguatera in the islands. We did get a lovely yellow fin tuna on our way here that has really been lovely. As we move around now we keep on crossing paths with cruisers that we have met before. It is all very sociable and everyone is really great. Tomorrow or the next day we will move down to Au Pou about 64nm away. We will leave very early morning and should make it down there by mid afternoon. It is sad that one does not have more time on this run. We have four months to move through the Pacific but at least a month of that is sailing time so one cannot linger too long at one place. One needs to select ones islands carefully to see and experience as much as possible. Most of them are similar but each has its own interesting history and community etc. Time for a walk on the beach so bye for now.
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