Taravana Yacht Club on Taha'a

A lot of the names in French Polynesia are real jawbreakers as they are difficult to pronounce for English speakers, and probably any one but the locals - too many vowels and not enough consonants plus some glutterals. Taha'a is easier than most - Ta Ah Ah - but trying saying it several times and your tongue gets all screwed up.

We moved over from Raiatea yesterday which was only about 3km from the wharf there to the Taravana YC which is not really a yacht club in the usual sense but just a restaurant and small hotel on a beautiful piece of property on a point on a small bay on the lagoon. It has a kewl veranda with bamboo furniture and sofas where we ate a tremendous meal last night. We called it our Anniversary dinner since we will be on the open seas on July 29th when our anniversary really is. The chef is very talented there and we felt it was worth the rather tremendous price. It also felt nice after all the rain and the miserable wharf mooring at Uturoa. Maggie Drum got hammered against the dock when the winds changed and the configuration of the wharf lagoon must have amplified the waves. That, and the wakes from the ferry and fishing boat traffic going by constantly, and, the rain blowing sideways.

We actually did not have rain again last night so may be it is gone for a bit. The locals say they have never seen it rain like this, this time of year, so we are just lucky.

Today we fill the boat with water from the hotel small pier, take real hot water showers (first since La Paz last January) then go to fabled Bora Bora.

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