. . . a naked girl floating in a crystal clear lagoon with no other humans within 50 miles!
POST DATED
(written 6/12)
We entered the lagoon at Tahanea without incident; like Makemo, we experienced about a 2knot flood which zipped us right through the narrow pass. When we arrived there was one other boat a half-mile distant; they left later that afternoon, leaving us with another lagoon all to ourselves. And again, it was glorious. The water was crystal clear–we could see the bottom to at least 200 feet.
The next day we dinghied over to another pass that was narrowed by reefs on either side, and we snorkeled alongside the dinghy, drifting with the current pulling us back into the lagoon. It was acres of aquarium, perfectly clear, colorful fish of all sorts that I can’t identify.
We had two days of perfect calm, where the water went glassy; each night the stars were clearly reflected in the surface of the water. We were the only ones anywhere. We took the dinghy into the middle of the lagoon to watch the sunset, everything was perfectly still. A bold little 4ft shark circled the dinghy as if he was going to do something about it. I cannot give words for the quality of the sunset that evening. We slept in the cockpit, woke to the sun warming us, jumped right into the water to cool off.
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