Societies
I returned from 5 weeks work in Aus in the middle of May to Papeete Marina where Julie stayed for the duration. We arrived there from the Tuamotos end of March and it was nice to be in civilisation again, the marina is smack bang in the middle of town with bars and restaurants around and lots of boat/hardware shops around so it was a busy time. We hired a car, drove around the island, refitted the dingy, built new shelves in Sunflowers workshop as well as a few other things you can't do on anchor so it was nice.
Julie enjoyed being in a marina for a change also while I was at work, joining the local gym to keep herself busy as well as making a new dinghy cover which was a fair old task, turned out perfect of course
I retuned and we changed out our solar panels for 2x 315w panels and man what a difference. We can now run watermaker for 3 hours a day if we like and always have full batteries, passages should be a lot better now with the thirsty autopilot also. Not many things at all are cheap in French Polynesia but funnily enough solar panels are subsidised so they were actually a bargain.
After 4 days rushing to get everything finished and cleaned up my dad arrived for a 12 day holiday and we sailed over to Moorea, good times. Hadn't hung out with my old man properly for quite some time so it was really nice. We just explored a few bays around Moorea taking it easy, no big sails or anything. The weather unfortunately was on and off with lots of rain around but it was still a good time.
After dropping him back in Tahiti we did some more stocking up and then did an overnight sail to Huahini where we have been for nearly 2 weeks and what a great spot. Besides the Huahini Yacht Club having happy hour every day what has made it so good is that so many of our good cruiser friends are here, it's been really fun and social that's for sure.
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