Well we made it to Rangiroa Atoll without anything else going wrong. What a beautiful place this is. It is totally different than the Marquesas Islands which are very Mountainous. These are coral atolls, no hills, highest point 35’. It is hard to describe an Atoll but basically it is an Island with the center of the Island a lake of sea water, and the outer part of the Island is land 200’ wide going all the way around. So it is sort of like a donut. See formation of Atoll below

Mike and I have done two dives since we got here and both were really great. The first one we saw 100’s of sharks, 4-6 footers. They were not more than 100 ft from us and the visibility was fantastic. Than we drift dived through the pass hitting speeds of 8 mph at 60 ft. and finally ended up swimming with 6 Manta Rays.

The next day we went on another dive and saw BIG sharks, Silver tips 8-12 ft in length. Maybe about 5 of them within 30 ft. Then we came upon a Manta cleaning station. There are cleaning stations for fish all over the ocean near reefs. It is a place where fish swim up and little fish or scrimp clean the parasites off of their gills. Well at this Manta cleaning station there were 3 very large Mantas getting cleaned and we were able to watch for 15 minutes.

Another day I took a bike ride from our anchorage to the little town 6 miles away. On the way I passed a winery (well it is a French Island). So about 10:30 am I am tasting wines. The wines were pretty good but very expensive $40/ 750ml. I guess they think it is a novelty to buy I sland wine.

Other then that we are just taking it easy and trying to line up the parts for the saildrive so we can fix it ourselves or see if we can get it fixed in Tahiti under warranty.

So until next week, enjoy the summer and be safe.

Love Gary
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