Bora Bora

We are now at Bora Bora the place James Michener called the most beautiful island in the world. This is the last of the Society islands to leeward of Tahiti. We had a pleasant sail across the 20 miles to here. We anchored in about 90 feet off the main town. Dorothy cycled around the island while I did some boat chores. We are thinking that we should have bought a wind generator for power rather than a third solar panel in San Diego as there are a lot of cloudy days here where the panels only put out %25 percnet of what they should when sun not on them and also with 12 hours of dark you could be getting power with the good winds here.

We watched a total solar eclipse of the sun just before we left Riatia we saw the sun get %90 percent covered with special glasses we shared with another cruiser. There is some good snorkling places we went to after 2 nights at the town we anchored at the south end of the island a couple of nights. It has been difficult getting around in dinghy due to strong winds day after day around the island . Today we moved to a mooring ball of the Bora Bora yacht club to take advantage of some of the facilites, laundry etc.
We also watched the Bastille day celebrations including the parade where most of the island seemed to participate so that there was hardly anyone left to watch it. Also watched the fruit race where a group of men had a foot race each carrying a bunch of bananas on each end of a pole. See picture.
Wednesday we hope to leave to head to Pago Pago on American Sumoa .