Enjoying the Atolls

We left the lagoon yesterday, through about 10 foot waves coming through the pass. I tried to take video, not sure if you can tell the movement or not! 

Just after we left the pass, we had dolphins for at least half an hour. They were HUGE!! - 8-10 feet probably a lot of them. They were jumping up and great to watch!

We made our way to the false pass of Tuao. This place is gorgeous, lots of shallow coral reefs to swim. We saw a huge moray eel just next to the boat.

We identified our fish from yesterday as about a 6-foot king mackerel. We had two other kid boats over last night and had a fish feast. It was great! Then we watched a video Cassidy's been working on for a month or so that she made from one of the other kid boat's (Carpe Diem) first year cruising photos. The video turned out very nice. They gave a tiny bit of input (spelling their last name right), she modified it, and we will render it and give it to them on a USB drive. Nice work Cass!!

The boys loved the fish and sharks!! First of all, 2 tiny remora came up with the mackerel, so we made them pets for a few hours, and then released them. With the skin and other fish parts from filleting the fish last night, the boys tied a fishing line around it and would bob it in the water. We had larger remora biting at it, other fish, and then came the sharks!! Integrity would try to pull it away, but sometimes he would catch a shark on the line. In those cases, they were able to cut the line and get the meat. We weren't using hooks, just line tied to meat so we could watch the local wildlife. It was interesting to see sharks feed.

It's been raining a lot, so we have caught good rainwater and whenever we motor, I do laundry. I have finally washed all of the kid's clothes in their boxes to remove the mold/must. It is kind of a spoils to get to wash clothes that aren't just filthy, but just need some freshening. We filled the drum with water again last night, so keep it coming!!

On shore there are 2 puppies and some small pigs I hear. Courage and little kids went this morning, while I did school with others of the kids. Going to do lots of diving and play on shore and soak it in!! Leaving in the morning likely for Apataki. One of our friend boats has a ham, so we are hoping to cash in with them and send our mails.

Shannon