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[weather]SE15-20 knots, seas 0.5m, cloud cover 80%, barometer 1014 steady
[status]Our passage from Moorea to Huahine with Daniel and his family was a comfortable 80nm motor in an 8 knot easterly but with no fish. After a day in Fare the main town on Huahine we moved south inside the reef to Avea Bay at the SW tip of Huahine. We had a couple of days of good weather, did some shallow snorkelling inside the reef and walked around to Parea a small village on the southern tip of the island. In Avea Bay we had a great lunch ashore with about 80 tourists in a restuarant that specialises in Sunday lunches cooked in an underground oven (a hangi in NZ). We were the only English speakers. Three days ago we crossed to Raiatia. It was a good sail in a 20-25 SE but again with no fish. We arrived at Raiatia as the rain started. It rained and blew for the next three days. Yesterday we sailed around the north end of Tahaa inside the reef to the Coral Gardens, a very shallow channel between two islands running from the outer reef into the lagoon. It's full of coral and small very tase fish. It's a great kids spot. We snorkelled there yesterday and this morning and this afternoon we snorkelled through the pass on the west side of Tahaa. As with all the passes we've dived in the Leeward islands visibility underwater was very poor. There were lots of small fish in shallow and also many live large snails mainly of two apparently protected species. This was quite unusual because in most places we've dived we've seen only empty shells. We intend to cross to Boroboro tomorrow morning.

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