We've had a fun couple weeks on Tubuai. The only other boat here happens to be some friends of ours, Matt & Kate from S/V Tamata. We've had a great time hanging out with them. Kate is a fantastic photographer and getting some work published in the likes of Cruising World. The cover shot on the blog right now is credited to her. We're both leaving today. Tamata's headed to Tahiti while we're off to Rurutu, the final island in our Austral Islands tour. It's about 115 nm and will be a quick overnight sail. We'll arrive tomorrow morning.
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| Matt and Kate from S/V Tamata on a day trip out to dive and look for whales. None seen. Coral pretty wrecked from a cyclone in 2010. |
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| The interesting thing about this photo isn't the bad vis or the dead coral but Kate, freediving at 40', keeping it cool. |
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| Small motu on the fringing reef. |
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| Last evening in Raivavae before the passage to Tubuai. |
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| There are many handmade va'a here (outrigger canoes). Some are wood, some fiberglass, some carbon. Paddling seems to be the most popular French Polynesian sport. |
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| We had a surprise squall one night that knocked out a channel marker. Luckily, after a short anchor drag, we hooked up again and had no other trouble. This is the tug retrieving it the next day. |
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| View over the island and reef. |
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