We stayed about a week in Taou, with Free At Last, our Australian friends we met in the Bahamas in 2008, making a 24 hour stop en route from Miami to Australia. We had a great if short reunion. We then enjoyed the family living in Taou having a potluck dinner with them and the other cruisers to celebrate the 4th of July. Alas we had run out of some very important provisions, namely beer so off we went to Tahiti.
The Tahiti leg is 250 miles so about 36 hours. The winds were good but the seas did no cooperate so not much fun. It was fantastic though to watch the sun rise as we sat outside Papette harbor, as so many vessels have done throughout history. During the transit we had a sailfish become very interested in our towing generator. I dropped a bare hook on a handline and got four hits with him but could not get the hook set.
On Sunday we will get to see the eclipse of the sun, or at least about 98 percent of one anyway.
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