The sailing to Suwarrow went good. Winds between 15-30 knots, E-SE, which gave us an average speed of 6 knots. 720 miles took us exactly five days. Still no luck in the fishing. Sailed with one reef all the time until the last 12 hours when we took another reef to slow down. We didn’t want to arrive in the dark and had to plan for slack water in the passage.
Dropped our anchor in about 20 ft. Around us there were three other boats. Peregrine who we met in Bora Bora, Cosmos (Americans) and a boat we don’t remember its name but the skippers name is Luke (French). Luke had no mast because it was lost in 40 kt of wind 200 miles from Suwarrow.
Luke was a interesting man, about in his sixties. Have lived in French Polynesia about 30 years and worked as a whole and retail seller of Tahiti pearls. He told us some stories of his life about pearls.
On the first evening we had been invited for pot lock barbeque on the beach. It became a very nice evening with nice food and nice people. We brought some rum and beer. Before the pot lock we met John and Veronica who are park rangers on Suwarrow. They live here between April and September and have done it for four years with their four children.
It is a nice snorkeling and we have seen groupers, napoleon, black tipped and grey sharks and a lot of colorful fishes. There is back tipped sharks swimming close to the boat all the time and when we throw in food they get really active and there is often about 12 sharks.
After four days in Suwarrow we pulled the anchor and moved on to Samoa.
