At Anchor in the Marquesas!!

We have been at anchor at Atuona on Hiva Oa in the southern Marquesas for three days now. We were exhausted the first two days but went out the first night for pizza with about 15 other cruisers and then passed out dead tired that night. The next night was a potluck on shore with more cruisers. We have tried to get email out but we are in a tight little bay with very steep, and beautiful, mountains between us and the radio stations we sign in on. So we have not been able to get a blog post out.

It is stunningly beautiful here. Tropical to the max, including the humidity, but the foliage is right out of any book or photo you have ever read or seen of Polynesia. It seems strange that the locals all speak French but they do so we can't even deal with buying things in the stores very well. It is very "rural" and small here. The stores are small like you would find in any very, very small town in the US, but one is fairly well stocked but with items we are not familiar with. We have not been able to check in yet because we got here on a Saturday and today was a holiday (Monday) but will try tomorrow. Then we will take off for other anchorages on Hiva Oa.

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