0800 Position 16-49S 150-59W. Anchored in Avea Bay, Huahine
Yesterday was a lazy day spent recovering from the 4th of July festivities. Rob and Renee went for a short bike ride. I only left the boat to go for a twenty minute swim and Mike went ashore once to pick up ice for our rum drinks from the hotel bar. It rained off and on all day so wasn't a good day for adventuring anyway.
This morning at 4AM I got up to relieve myself, walked to the stern of Van Diemen, looked down, and saw a number of sea cucumbers on the sand in the moonlight directly below me. We have very good visibility in the water here, but not good enough to see the bottom clearly in thirty feet of water where we dropped the anchor. I woke up Rob who came aft with a weight on the end of a line. He measured the water depth. Six feet.
The wind had shifted to the north during the night swinging us around back to where our French pals on the catamaran had anchored on the sloping sand bank. Our desire to get an optimized WIFI signal from the Relais Mahana had put us a little too close to the sand for adequate swinging room.
No big deal. Sand bottom, smooth water, and we hadn't touched, yet, but we were too close for comfort so we reanchored a little further from the sand bank. Now we have good swinging room but the WIFI signal sucks…
A nasty looking squall rolls into Avea Bay
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