us and we are motoring, timing our arrival there for first light. I am
smiling when I think how the boys on board will react when they see this
magnificent little island rising out of the sea with the rising of the
sun. I could go a little faster and arrive there at midnight, but have
decided to rather not. We will fill some of our water drums from a fresh
water stream that runs into the bay. It would be nice to have a littloe
extra water to wash our clothes and have a good shower to wash off all
the salty seadogness of the last few days. Eduard had a seashower
earlier today but was out in a flash. A bluebottle's tentacles was
wrapped around his arm and on his stomach. Steven was quickly on hand
with some meat tenderizer. Nick also had a sting a day or two ago, seems
the waters here have plenty of jellyfish. Eduard is 100%, he was quiet
for a while sitting outside and waiting for the pain to subside. It
normally takes about half an hour before the pain stops. My daughter is
also very familiar with blue bottles.On our trip to Belize three years
ago when she was 5 she got stung by a huge blue bottle on the back of
her knee. It still aches me when I think back of the pain she
experienced but soon she was treated and wrapped in a space blanket for
shock and fell asleep shortly afterwards. When she woke up she asked me
why Jesus makes bluebottles, and I had to explain a few things about
life to her.
From Fatu Hiva it is a quick four days to Tahiti and we will arrive on
the 10th, easy peasy. I have made contact with the base manager there
and justb got a reply that we will do handover on the 12th.I will have
to send our etickets and other boat details by Friday as required by
immigration and customs, and take it from there. Things are coming to an
end rapidly and we have already started preparing the boat for our
handover inspection. Once we are there we definately don't want to spend
cleaning and shining the boat. Rather enjoy the few days we have there
doing some sightseeing etc.
Nautical term today is 'Sold Down the River'. Fromthe perpetual threat
held against slaves working in areas bordering the Northern States of
America. If they misbehaved or proved lazy, they could be sold down the
river9the Mississippi) to work in the soiuthern sugar plantations. From
this comes the notion of cheated, hoodwinked,taken for a ride. Our
postion at 6am our time, 5pm SA time and UTC -9 now was
09*50'S/134*17'W. We are 260nm from Fatu Hiva and 1030nm from Tahiti.
Which means that today we will go under the 1000nm mark to our final
destination.
Take good care
Paul
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