Day 5

While at Bloody Mary's dock taking on water, I met the owner of a boat from Santa Barbara, California who had been moored near us. He had been cruising for 3 years and was leaving today to make his way to the Cook Islands and New Zealand. We headed north past the Bora Bora Yacht Club, Teveiroa Motu, then east through a tricky passage, past Pt. Tuishora and Pt. Mohio to an anchorage behind Motu Piti Asu, close to Pt. Faronne. Good adventure was had avoiding an unmarked underwater cable across the narrow channel. We shared the large, beautiful anchorage with four other boats. Soaring frigate birds surrounded the boats in the anchorage.