Aug 8, 2015 1700
Apooiti Marina
Aloha Everyone, this will be short as nothing to exciting to report. We made it back to the marina yesterday, hoping for the guest dock, but it was full. We picked up a mooring outside and headed to the office. We always forget that many places shut down completely for an hour or two at lunch time, as was the case of the port captain. Therefore, we picked up our rental car (we are friendly with manager, he is close by so picks us up, and fairly cheap) and headed into town for our favorite lunch spot. Who can complain about pizza, beer and wifi. Once we got back to marina, port captain gave us a slip, but we had to shoehorn ourselves in due to the array of bow anchors. We had help with someone in a dinghy to push the bow around. We got in and got settled, met an interesting Swede who is singlehanding around the World, including Antartica. His bow got beat after his anchor got caught in some coral, so he was doing some repairs. We had him aboard for a beer, a very interesting man (Karin is 25% Swede). Some pasta last night and a quiet night of reading. Today, I got a haircut sitting next to Karin, new experience. A few errands in Uturoa, provisioning, and back to boat for clean up, watering, etc. Tomorrow Jane comes in and we will be of for some more adventures. Hope everyone is well who is reading this, Aloha for now, David BTW, attempted to send a few pictures, not sure they made it out. Wifi is very slow here.
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Who has longer hair, David or Karin? Beards don't count!!!!!
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