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Hakahetau Bay On 28th April, we lifted the anchor and sailed over to Hakahetau Bay on Ua Pou, around the corner from where we last visited the island. We didn’t intend to spend much time here. The anchorage might be an improvement on Taiohae, but not by much. It was...

Lunch and leave After lunch with Bertrand and Pascale at the local beachside restaurant, where the only item on the menu is tuna in three ways: raw, seared and cooked, we got Jamala ready to sail back to Taiohae bay so that we could take care of essentials, such as...

Anaho On the 18th of April, we left Hooumi and headed off to Anaho. We visited here in 2019 but never got ashore because of strong winds. So this time was different, although a lot busier. Anaho is a far more accessible place to get ashore than Hooumi or Taiohae....

Hooumi Bay Having a clean propeller helps. We made it out of Taiohae Bay on the 13th of April, turning left for a lumpy motor sail to Hooumi Bay. The last time we were here, in 2019, we embarked on a hike to rival a pilgrimage to the Vaiahu waterfall with our Irish...

Boat work in Taiohae Bay As usual, our planned one-week stay in Taiohae turned into three. We didn’t spend the time slacking, though; there was far too much to do for any of that. Besides, we needed to kickstart our bodies into mobility after loafing around for almost...

Close, but miles apart Rather than go through the rigmarole of taking off the outboard, we lifted the dinghy complete with outboard onto the side of the boat and headed the few miles across Banderas Bay to the anchorage at La Cruz. There, we picked up Aloha's AIS...

Chacala Our pilot book suggested Chacala would be a fun place to stop, so that’s where we headed the next day. It didn’t look like fun when we got there, judging by how the three boats already there were bouncing around. But this was the best out of the two places we...

There'll be crocodiles in these parts We arrived at the expansive bay of Matanchen a few hours after leaving Isla Isabel and her boobies. Palapas pepper the coastline here, stretching over hundreds of metres on the north shore. So, there's no shortage of places to...

Don't believe the anti-hype If we had taken some comments posted about Isla Isabel at face value, we wouldn't have turned up. According to some, the anchorages here are more Rock'n Roll than the '60s, and the sea bed has a voracious appetite for anchors. "Once the...