We spent 5 days in Taiohae, the capital of The Marquesas. Here are my memories, in no particular order:
1. Busy, crowded, rolly anchorage
2. Hours and hours at the coffee shop at the dock for internet. Buy a $2 coffee, and you get all the wifi you want. I would often purchase a fresh squeezed pamlemousse juice too. Mmmmm.
3. The dinghy dock ladder. First, if you parked too close to it at low tide your dinghy could get caught underneath it, and then as the tide rose it could pop your dinghy. Second, the sides of the ladder stopped at the top wrung, so there was no higher leverage point to pull yourself up with. It made for very awkward dinghy deboardings.
4. Fruit and Veggie market at o’dark thirty on Saturday morning. Chaos.
5. Bad burgers, but good brick fired pizza.
6. Tim is becoming quite the seamstress. He made a cover for our generator.
7. Finishing all of my chores before Tim was ready to leave, so I had a full day to take a solo walk around the entire bay. It was a holiday and there were many families gathering for picnics and fun.
Gresham Family Exodus 