Papeete!!

We arrived here at dawn after a SLOW sail yesterday (on purpose) in order to try arrive during daylight. Before we entered the harbour we called the harbour master on VHF 12 to tell them we would like to enter and transit around to Maeve Beach. He said OK and advised us to call him at the east end of the airport before proceeding. There are large signs on the water advising this so….. We called and he told us to proceed and when we got the west end before crossing the flight path we called again and were cleared for transit. We anchored just west of Taina marina and after talking to Ulf and Christina on Roxy (a Swedish boat) they told us where to go with the dinghy etc. Well, along with Ann and Barry from Cats Paw IV, we headed into shore. We eventually caught the "truck bus" for 130 cfp per person to downtown. We found a place for lunch and stopped and ate and watched the world go by. The anchorage is calm, the dingy landing is free, water is available, diesel and petrol is here and there is laundry on shore. As we explore, I will write more. I am slowly updating the web site, there are a few more pictures and I will get the rest up as I can.

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