Another fun day

August 14, 2015, 0830
on Mooring off of Bloody Mary's
Aloha Everyone, I will try to catch you all up on our adventures. When I last wrote, we were sailing to Bora and what a nice sail it was! 3 hours pass to pass, no water on deck. We picked up a mooring at Maikai Marina and got the dinghy and engine back in the water. I was confident the outboard would work after I was able to get it started while it was on board, but no such luck. It started once, ran for 30 sec., and refused to start again. We had lunch aboard and read. I watched my wife's jaw drop as she saw one of the world's biggest sailboats go by. It had a plane on the afterdeck! We eventually headed in, had a cocktail, used the wifi and then had a nice dinner. Not only was the food good, but we very much enjoyed the live music. It was american, played and sung by a young hapa man, and backed up by his father on the guitar. (My apologies, we have tried to download pictures while in wifi, but no luck. We are hoping some of our previous crew will do so for us, HINT.) Yesterday morning, we headed back in, took the engine off, and hicked to town. Talked to engine shop and then we rented these cute little electric cars, two passenger each, and drove around the island. We hiked up to one of the sets of cannons our military put up in'42-43. What a chore that must have been, but what great view. The original path to g there is closed, so it was a good 30 min. hike. We had a wonderful lunch at Maitai hotel, on the beach overlooking the turquoise lagoon. Most delightful. After returning cars, the girls went shopping, and I got the engine to the shop, and hope to hear about it today. My biggest concern is they telling me they can fix it next week! Here is hoping! We then headed over to Bloody Mary's and picked up a mooring there. It just started to rain prior to us rowing in, but it stopped in time, and we had a wonderful meal there, again. The rain held off until we got back to boat, and then both rain and wind picked up, but we were all snug by then. I was hoping to motor around the big sailboat that was anchored in this area, but they have left overnight. We will take on some water at Blood Mary's and, hopefully, drop off the watermaker to my new best friend who had helped us with the engine two weeks earlier. From there, we'll probably snorkel off Toopua Is., check out the Hilton and who knows.
Hope everyone of you are doing well and will motivated to follow your dreams, Aloha, David and Karin


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