Nuku Hiva

Hi there. We have bought an internet card for 4,000 francs, giving us five hours of wi-fi internet anywhere in French Polynesia if there is a tower; as you can see, things are quite expensive here but oh well. The internet is supposedly very slow and skype is iffy. Soooo, I thought I'd sailmail you what is happening and surprise you when I can actually get online. 


We had a lovely slowish lumpy but beautiful sail all night following the silver moon over to Nuku Hiva and are here with lots of boats who sailed over with the first ones who left with Freedom and A Cappella, and it is fun saying hi to them. Most of them are leaving today or tomorrow for the Tuamotus with the goal of getting to Tahiti in time for the June 18 celebration put on by Latitude 38, the popular sailing magazine from the Bay Area. Luckily we are looking forward to being in Tahiti when the island people have their traditional dancing, singing celebration in July and meeting Tom and Paula then. 


This town is beautiful and is a great place to provision when on the way to the Tuamotus. Yummy warm bagettes are plentiful and vegetables to die for! We are getting our headsail reinforced today by a sailmaker from New Zealand but have not been able to locate a refrigeration person, so we are troubleshooting today with some tools loaned to us by another cruiser. Wish us luck! We ran into our Puerto Lucia friends from Britain, Josie and Steve, yesterday, and it was great catching up with them. They left for Daniel's Bay, about 3 miles from here, that is supposed to be wonderful with a great waterfall hike and lovely gentle Polynesian people living life in the valley. That is our next stop. I will keep in touch. S.