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Hakaehu

May 5-6, 2014

Unfortunately, I didn’t take many photos here. We met a father and son who treated us with such hospitality, including a tour of their property, a meal to share, and a bunch of pamplemousse. The animals in these photos are theirs.

Depart Daniel’s Bay May 5 at 0928 – Arrive Hakaehu at 1425
Hakaehu

Logbook – May 5, 2014 (Daniel’s Bay to Hakaehu)

Passage Log Highlights:

  • 0928 Engines on
  • Depart
  • 1002 Engines off main + genoa
  • 1107 SB engine on + main
  • 1258 P engine on + main (1 reef)
  • 1425 Arrive Hakaehu

Daily Notes:

  • Met Albert and Germain – many animals (baby pig & goat!)
The view of Ua Pou as we traveled from Daniel’s Bay to Hakaehu. This island wasn’t in our itinerary, but we viewed it from afar.
Brenden loved all the baby animals
Piggie!!!
Just playing with a baby goat on the beach…

Logbook – May 6, 2014 (Hakaehu)

Daily Notes:

  • T – help fix LC main sail
  • T/Steve – spearfish. T – lost bolt (gun broken) Steve – afraid of sharks
  • Dinner w/ Albert & Germain. Pig, breadfruit, breadfruit puree

Email to family and friends dated May 6, 2014

Subject: Hakaehu

Once again, we tried to navigate east around the north side of an island and got slammed with 20+ kt winds on the nose and didn’t make it to our destination.  We heard this island (Nuku Hiva) was better.  We heard that the wind funnels through the valleys and if you stay close to shore, you’ll get a nice beam reach on your starboard side.  We heard wrong.  Anyway, we didn’t make it to Anaho yesterday, instead we stopped at a less visited bay called Hakaehu.  We won’t be leaving for Anaho today either, because we are in for another treat today.  Tim met two guys, a father and son, who live here, and they showed us around their property where they harvest copra and grow many other fruits (they gave us pamplemousse and papayas) and they have many animals.  Brenden especially enjoyed the baby goat that followed him around.  They speak only slightly more English than we do French, but with a little bit of gesturing and had signals we were able to communicate.  Today they have invited us to a meal with them where they are going to cook up a wild goat they caught (we actually saw it tied to a tree yesterday).  I wish I had more bananas right now because at our last meal with Marquesans on Tahuata the banana bread was about the only thing we brought that they liked.  Maybe I’ll make pumpkin bread (I’m sure I have a can of pumpkin rolling around somewhere).  I will also be sure to bring my French book this time.

Love and miss you all,

-D.

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At 5/6/2014 3:25 PM (utc) our position was 08°47.27’S 140°10.89’W

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