Tahitian Dancing Will Never be the Same

We actually got the timings right and made it to shore in time to see a Tahitian dance show at Club Bali Hi in Cooks Bay. The dancers were great as were the musicians accompanying. During the introduction, one of the dancers mentioned that about mid show, they would be asking for volunteers from the audience. Have you ever had one of those feelings that you KNOW that you will be asked, I did. I was asked, and what the heck, I went up and had a great time making a complete and utter fool out of myself. Bill, crew off Island Time, and I must have set the art of Tahitian Dancing back at least a century. Everyone had fun so that was fine. A bunch of us headed down the road afterwards to the local pizza place and had a relatively inexpensive dinner out.
Around 03:30 this morning the wind started finally. It has been very calm for almost a week. Because of the step hills, we got some nice gusts. I set the GPS alarm in case we dragged and eventually got back to sleep. It's been blowing a steady 15-20 knots all day and has been overcast but no rain. I spent the day polishing all the stainless on the back of the boat, pushpit, solar panel mounts and Monitor Wind vane. Actually it was an ideal day for polishing with no sun to bake me and nice wind to keep me cool. It looks great, which is one of the joys of a job like that; you get to see the results immediately. We will hang out here a few more days yet before heading back to Papeete. We talked to Toketie yesterday and they probably left the Tuamotus today for Papeete. We may hire a car for a few hours tomorrow to drive around Moorea, depends if the winds drop out overnight.

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