Nuku-Hiva

What a trip!! Was brilliant. Had the anchor down just after dark in Taiohae Bay Nuku Hiva after a great days run with plenty of breeze. After a shower and a bottle of champagne we were both knackered after all of the excitement and got the best nights sleep, didn't wake once. Heard a lot of stories how this anchorage is so rolly but it's been quite fine so far. Beautiful little town, it is the main "city" of all the islands but on a guess there would be less than 200(?) houses scattered around the bay, it's very quiet to say the least, and absolutely spectacular with the greenest of hills stretching up to over 1000m high, awesome. There's about 30 boats in the anchorage with everyone spread out and not on top of one another, it's beautiful, paradise. On Friday we checked in with the gendarmerie, just one guy that does customs, immigration, harbour master the lot. Very nice man, super relaxed French guy that spoke pretty good English couldn't have been easier. We still haven't quite finished yet as we need to provide either a bond or a ticket out of here if something goes wrong or we can pay for a bond letter through an agent which is what we are waiting to do and will hopefully get done on Monday and then we will be free to sail around.
We knew a couple of boats here and one of them was hiring a car Saturday so we joined and did a trip around the island, wow I really can't explain it in words it really is amazing you can see in the photos but they really don't do it justice. And the other thing is the people, so nice, so relaxed it's just amazing and not one bit of rubbish on the ground anywhere!! Fruits growing everywhere also-bananas, coconuts, pomegranates, tamarind, papayas, star fruit, breadfruit, avocado, custard apples, limes, oranges, mangoes and others we had never seen before just growing EVERYWHERE. Then there's cows, goats pigs wild horses also everywhere, these people will never starve that's for sure!! We stoped at this one family's little farm of maybe 4 acres in a valley to ask if we could buy some breadfruit we saw he had growing everywhere. So nice, he gave us some plus pompomous, oranges, limes a couple of coconuts. This place had it all, like nothing I've ever seen- a few cows, pigs, goats, chickens then all the fruits they have with heaps of lime trees going right down to his own private beach in his own protected Bay with a little river going to it he gets his drinking water from and catches fish with the nets he has hung up, truly self sufficient and "rich" as can be. Makes some money selling his fruits locally and shipping the limes to Tahiti, not bad at all.
Yea not a bad spot this Pacific, think we will like it

All the boats we meet ask how long the crossing took and it sounds like we did pretty well compared so I'm pretty stoked with our trip. Here's the times from Isla De Plata Ecuador-
24days 6.5 hours+4.5 hours time difference=nearly 24.5/3554nm=146.05nm per day average, just over 6kts average but we did cover a lot more ground than this going up and down of our rhumb line making the most of the wind as well. Great trip

Update
Internet is very hard to get here especially out of the main town where we have been in Daniels Bay for a few days now so posts may be far between:)