May 7-9, 2014
This was my second favorite anchorage in The Marquesas (after Fatu Hiva). I only regret that we saved it for last and didn’t have nearly enough time. We only have 90 days on our visa for all of French Polynesia and we were pushing 5 weeks in the Marquesas, so it was unfortunately time to go. But we did manage to hike over a ridge to the next bay to a town to buy baguettes and hike to an organic vegetable farm and pick our own veggies. We left with 4 stalks of bananas and 40+ mangoes, so we hoped to give some to the locals in the Tuamotus (spoiler alert, our first motu was Raroia and we didn’t meet any locals, so we were forced to eat all that fruit ourselves. We were on banana quota patrol.)
Logbook – May 7, 2014 (Hakaehu to Anaho)
Passage Log Highlights
- 1245 Arrive Anaho * No speedo
Daily Notes:
- Wahoo! 49 lb 5’6”
- D – paddle board along the reef. 2 turtles – beautiful
- Potluck on LC. Wahoo!
Logbook – May 8, 2014 (Anaho)
Daily Notes:
- Hike over the ridge to hatiheu w/o kids. Frozen baguettes.
- Rainy day
Email to family and friends dated May 8, 2014
Subject: Anaho
We made it to Anaho and it’s one of the loveliest anchorages we’ve been in, well worth the bash to get here. Unfortunately it’s been raining all day today (Thursday)so we haven’t been able to fully enjoy it. We are down to just a day or two left in the Marquesas, so it’s a bit disappointing. On the 6 or so mile trip to get here from Hakaehu Lady Carolina landed a huge wahoo. We were on the radio with them, and Steve was telling us to go ahead and pull in our lines since we are set for fish for awhile and then… whrrrrr…. fish on. Tim also wrestled aboard a 5.5 ft wahoo. So, now we are REALLY set for fish. We have traded some with some locals for bananas (although the bananas have not arrived yet), traded some to another boat for some dorado, and given some away to another boat we’ve seen several times previously at other anchorage. We had a HUGE wahoo dinner on Lady Carolina last night, and we’ll be having another on Exodus tonight.
Tim, Steve, Carolina, and I went on a hike this morning (sans kids) up over a ridge to the next bay where there is a town and we heard you can get baguettes there. It was a long hike, and I enjoyed it because it gave me that same feeling I get from running (getting the heart rate a little bit up and then just pushing along). We scored some baguettes but they were frozen and since it was such a small town we tempered our desire to buy 8 each and cut it down to 4 each.
We will likely leave for the Tuamotus on Saturday and we will hook up again with True Blue V for the passage, so we will be convoy of 3. Chara is already in the Tuamotus but hopefully we will catch up to them in Tahiti if not before.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
At 5/6/2014 3:25 PM (utc) our position was 08°49.34’S 140°03.89’W <—- just noticed the date and time are wrong. Not sure why… it’s currently Th May 8 4:50 pm Marquesan time (UTC – 9.5)
P.S. I have discovered a process error which has caused many of the dates attached to these location messages to be erroneous. Anyway, since I do these manually, it’s best to take them with a grain of salt. The best way to check our location is on the inReach page.
Logbook – May 9, 2014 (Anaho)
Daily Notes:
- Hike for veggies – picked fresh veggies @ the farm
- Boys gather 92 mangos (green)
Email to family and friends dated May 9, 2014
Subject: Anaho
We made it to Anaho and it’s one of the loveliest anchorages we’ve been in, well worth the bash to get here. Unfortunately, it’s been raining all day today (Thursday) so we haven’t been able to fully enjoy it. We are down to just a day or two left in the Marquesas, so it’s a bit disappointing. On the 6 or so mile trip to get here from Hakaehu, Lady Carolina landed a huge wahoo. We were on the radio with them, and Steve was telling us to go ahead and pull in our lines since we are set for fish for a while and then… whrrrrr…. fish on! Tim also wrestled aboard a 5.5 ft wahoo. So, now we are REALLY set for fish. We have traded some with some locals for bananas (although the bananas have not arrived yet), traded some to another boat for some dorado, and given some away to another boat we’ve seen several times previously at other anchorage. We had a HUGE wahoo dinner on Lady Carolina last night, and we’ll be having another on Exodus tonight.
Tim, Steve, Carolina, and I went on a hike this morning (sans kids) up over a ridge to the next bay where there is a town and we heard you can get baguettes there. It was a long hike, and I enjoyed it because it gave me that same feeling I get from running (getting the heart rate a little bit up and then just pushing along). We scored some baguettes but they were frozen and since it was such a small town we tempered our desire to buy 8 each and cut it down to 4 each.
We will likely leave for the Tuamotus on Saturday and we will hook up again with True Blue V for the passage, so we will be convoy of 3. Chara is already in the Tuamotus but hopefully we will catch up to them in Tahiti if not before.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
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At 5/6/2014 3:25 PM (utc) our position was 08°49.34’S 140°03.89’W <—- just noticed the date and time are wrong. Not sure why… it’s currently Th May 8 4:50 pm Marquesan time (UTC – 9.5)
P.S. I have discovered a process error which has caused many of the dates attached to these location messages to be erroneous. Anyway, since I do these manually, it’s best to take them with a grain of salt. The best way to check our location is on the inReach page.
Email to family and friends dated May 10, 2014
Subject: Adios Marquesas
We are planning to leave Anaho around noon today (Marquesan time) for the Tuamotos. Our planned first stop is the atoll of Raroia, and we expect it to take between 3 and 4 days. We want to arrive on the lee side of the atoll where the pass is by Wed morning in order to make it through the pass at slack tide around 12:30. We’ll have the inReach on so you can track our progress and I’ll send another email if any plans change. Right now Tim is trying to find a leak in our dinghy and I just finished preparing passage food and I’m doing all the other pre-passage activies (testing EPIRB, getting sails ready, etc.) The boys changed the water maker filters and cleaned the sea water strainer and are currently trying to talk me into having the day off from school. They took yesterday off to go on a hike with Kyle and Joel to collect mangoes, and would you believe they came back with 92 nice green ones? We are trying to take extra fruit to the Tuamotus, because unlike the Marquesas it is not very abundant and we want to share with the locals. Tim, Steve, Carolina, and I hiked over to an organic farm yesterday and picked our own green beans, lettuce, radishes, and eggplant, and we also got some tomatoes and peppers that were already picked. The part of the hike back that was along a trail just off the beach was amazing and I regret I didn’t have my camera with me. White sand, blue water contrasted with dramatic black volcanic boulders. No, it wasn’t a quick trip to the store for veggies, but it was a journey worth taking.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
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At 5/9/2014 1:57 AM (utc) our position was 08°49.34’S 140°03.89’W
Gresham Family Exodus 