Market ? What Market?

So we are all pumped up to go to Fare on Huahine for market day. According to the guide books and the girl in the scooter rental place - Yes, there is a market on Saturday. All day! Down by the cargo dock. Well, long story short, we bought a few supplies at the regular grocery store and were back to the big boat in an hour. Quite disappointing, there were two tail-gate trucks with a few pieces of fruit and the other one had some veal. Our afternoon was spent burning up fuel in the whaler, boogey boarding in the bay where we have the big boat parked. It took a few times for Georgia to get back into the groove and because I'm lucky today, I get up first time. But I'm not a very good boat driver and I couldn't get the throttle right to allow Glen to stabalize the board so that he could get up. So before we ripped his arms out, he promised I could try driving another day and he got back on board and drove for Georgia again. When we finished that craziness, we took a tour in the whaler to the other side of the island in search of a smooth snorkel place as the wind had picked up on the west side making it too rough to snorkel there. we saw some neat things from the water, but curiously, it was rough on the east side too so we headed back to the Mother ship and soothed our soar muscles with papaya smoothies for Happy Hour.

Sunday was a dive day, Eric and Anne came from Oso Blanco and we headed for Avapehi Pass for a spectacular dive (according to the dive books). We anchored our boats by the local dive boat (good sign - there is dive activity here) and descended to the dead coral below. It will get better as we go into the pass - Not!. We found a couple of eels and saw a few more fish than usual, but diving here is not very good to say the least. To top the experience off, we mis-judged the current and almost got ourselves swept out to sea (not a sign of experienced divers as we like to think of ourselves). So we called it a day and headed back to the big boats, chatted for a bit before Eric and Anne took off for their big boat then cleaned our gear. Tomorrow, we will head over to Raiatea, a two hour trip.

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