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Toau appraisal1/4/2023 ![]() (sometimes up to the elbow) feeling for lobsters to grab and extract. ![]() Potential lobster hole was found, they would stick their gloved hands in Gentle waves were breaking, looking for likely looking holes. Walking along the very broad outer shelf of the atoll, out by where the very Protrusions on their carapaces are very sharp. They have no claws like Maine lobsters, but the spiny The lobsters here are much like the spiny lobsters we had in The day after we met them they invited us to come lobstering They've put downĪbout 12 moorings and they enjoy including yachties in their fishing and harvesting The families ashore in Anse Amyot are very friendly. Then we had a calm and peaceful 20 mile sail to the cul-de-sac ofĪ pot-luck feast at Mama's open air restaurant We shot out through the pass and through the vicious rip that had developed just On Monday, August 4, we had a delightful sail up to the north end of Toau. We watched them for a while but they didn't put on an eating Several larger (7'+) gray sharks circling and waiting for the current to bring We drifted up and just at the mouth of the pass we saw When we felt a bit of current pushing us up the wall, we knew we were just Ocelot & Cowrie Dancer in Anse Amyot, Toau None of them were aggressive, but one kept a close eye on us,Ĭircling around and often coming to within 15' of us. There were also several small (4-5') gray reef sharks cruising back andįorth. Were amazingly friendly, often swimming unconcernedly only 3-4' from us. Us, thought she could easily snorkel down to us, not realizing we were 70'ĭown. Pass on the outer reef, which fell off steeply (almost a wall) to the deepīlue. Sue and Amandaĭecided to operate one of the 2 support dinghies. In the end, 5 people went diving, including Jon and Chris. Working again, Jon magnanimously offered to help drain one of their scubaīottles so they could more thoroughly test their repaired compressor. Well so Jon went over to see if he could help them. L'Ondine's dive compressor wasn't working In Toau, we again ran into our friends on the 2 big Swans ($wan$),ĥ7' Cowrie Dancer from Perth and 60' L'Ondine from Sweden (who retired when ![]() Nice spinnaker run for 15 miles and catching the Toau pass just at slack We decided not to wait for the prize-giving and closing ceremonies onįakarava but sailed to Toau Atoll on Saturday, August 2 nd, having a Toau Atoll, showing our tracks and 2 anchoragesĬlick on the map to see all of the Tuamotus ![]()
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