Tahiti bound

Thursday, 0445 Tahiti time
We are en route from Fakarava to Papeete, Tahiti. There is a half-moon hanging above us and the wind is so light that we are motoring. Our time at the atoll was incredible. While drinking coffee at anchor this morning we got a call on the VHF from the owner of the pension-style resort directly ashore, offering to make lunch for our whole crew if someone could do a small wiring job on one of his boats. Since Dan has become quite the marine electrician we responded affirmatively and "Manihi" came
to pick us up in his 40-foot marine-plywood cigarette boat. It was still early so he drove us out to the south pass and dropped Schimy and Rylin off for snorkeling, and Dan and me off for surfing. Dave had been scuba-diving earlier in the morning, so he went back to the resort with our new friend. Dan later got the electrical job done, no problem, and we enjoyed a delicious fish-stew lunch. Most of us are now over our South Pacific shark fear, as we have seen so many of them, even just under our
surfboards! But these are not the great whites we so fear at home, and there aren't any seals or sea lions here that a shark might mistake a human for. ETA Papeete: 1400 Friday.