367: HUAHINE, DO WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS?

Hey guys, we are in Huahini. We got here a couple weeks ago and as we shared with you when we arrived, we had an interesting interaction with one of the locals. Unfortunately, we might have a problem. One of the locals is canoeing out to us right now. So this guy wants his family to be able to see the sunset and not see our boat which is why he's asking us to move. It's so frustrating. He found out this week some really interesting information and one that reinforced the need to move anytime you are asked to move by a local. The interesting news we found out was that he was arrested and the reason he was arrested is because he used a machete against his neighbor. He sliced up his neighbor, his back and his arm to the point where he had to be sent to the hospital and our friend who held the machete was sent to prison in Tahiti for two years. The moral of the story is you are a guest and also there are crazy people everywhere and usually that's the person who's going to be confrontational and if you don't know you just have to kind of do what they say. I'm really glad we didn't say no sorry not going to move because no doubt this guy may have used this machete on some of our equipment on us instead of the guy the next day that's sending him to prison in Tahiti. Last week we talked to you all about how we love our Dahan bikes and today we're going to take Everett and we're going to cycle just Huahini Nui not E.T. We think it's about a 27-28 miler. If we did Huahini E.T. the bottom lobe of Huahini it would be a lot for one day. We've got a lot of places to stop along the way. Yeah we love to discover anchorages and the water parts but sometimes even better the land is great and the best way to do that is on a bicycle and we get tons of exercise and exploration and adventure and yeah I can't wait till today. We are renting a bike for Everett so that he can cycle with us and get the exercise. Price is 1200 for two hours 20 bucks for eight hours. Not a great start Everett already has a flat tire so heading back to let them know. Swapping out the bikes already have a flat tire. This is one of the most complete museums in the societies. It has amazing artifacts from way back when that they have uncovered. A Japanese scientist was here Dr. Sonoto and he in the mid-1900s uncovered a ton of stuff some really cool things in there like fish hooks and weights that held down canoes and it's just a beautiful sight. The mare is still in really great shape. These are ancient fish traps, stone fish traps. How crazy is that? I mean this saved them. Wow. They come in here this catches them and then it takes them to these little pools where they can nap and then they can't get out. This is a memorial to the marines that died at Luranni in 1846. We've got tombs and then also cannons. Those are tiny little cannons. I know. Well they didn't have to throw it far you know. Right. This is just an engineering feat that is super cool. Boys are off to the pearl farm. Welcome to Apocalypse Now in Fuhimi. Unfortunately we didn't bring the locks for the bike so I'm staying here and the guys are headed out to the pearl farm out there so Everett could buy some pearls. He used the mud of the lagoon to obtain the color and the blue is the mud with cobalt and his son drew on 90 percent of poetry. Wow it's different here. Do you want to have the face right here or right here? A little too steep for us to bike this. Oh this is a beautiful garden. Look at that. You also have this amazing view and all of these flowers. It's incredible. We've decided to get off the bikes and walk. This is super steep. They say it's 30 percent. This does not look 30 percent to me. I think some of this is more than 30 percent. I do too. Three months. It's used in perfumery also. You smell nice. Yes, you smell amazing. Got this cute little restaurant on the road back to town. Such a beautiful day. We've had a great ride. Time to get some nutrition. It's so beautiful, the flair. Wow and uh, excuse me, pardon. Okay, I'm out of the way. This is the bridge that connects the small island Iti and the larger island Nui. Wow, we certainly know why everyone gets e-bikes when they ride this island. There's a lot of ups and downs and hills. My legs are completely shot. Our last stop before town. We're stopping at the distillery. They make liquors from fruits so we're going to check this out. The fruit forms the alcohol. So for five dollars a person they offer a tasting. The small bottles are 25, medium 50, large 75. These are all the fruits of this area. That's quite a bar. We made it back safely. What a great day. Time to do a little provisioning and then back to the boat. Alright guys, we were taking off this morning. It's mid-morning. We've been here for almost a week I would say in this amazing anchorage near town and we're just going to head south about three miles to a new location. Just a change of scenery. So we're taking off now. Well that was super easy. We've got a few issues that we've got to deal with though. One is that our three strand bridle here, the splicing has come apart so we're left with just two strands. It looks like one was sawed through maybe by a piece of coral. I don't know. So we only got two attachments here. That's not a good thing. Now we're gonna have to order a new bridle. Might need to do something about this in the interim. I've made a temporary bridle out of some dock line that we have which will connect to the chain and then we'll get working on re-splicing this bridle so that it is back to working order. I'm hoping that we can do this. It'll be interesting to see. Anyway, if not we'll shorten it significantly or have to do a temporary for a while. Wow this is beautiful and we're gonna drop anchor just ahead of us on the sand up here. We've got a whole bunch of pit corrosion going on on our boom and we're not sure how long these have been here so we're marking them with a magic marker with a suggestion and we're doing this because if we continue to get new ones we've probably got some kind of galvanic action going on which we don't want. All right there it is. All of the pit corrosion we've got and it'll sort it out once we figure out. We are headed back up to Fare, the main town of Huahine. We are needing to go up there because Everett is flying out tomorrow and we've got to bring him back to get to the airport so that's what we're doing right now. Kind of nice when you've got wind behind you and you're doing six and a half knots. We probably have a lot of current with us too. Clearly this is going to be a really quick three miles. Wow that was a 20 minute trip. That's incredible. There's the morning routine. Father-son calisthenics. I swear it looks harder than it does. There we go. A little more cinematic. We are in town to have our last supper with Everett. He is taking off today. We're so sad to see him go. He's been a delightful guest on board. It's been wonderful to have him. The guys went ahead to the yacht club to start dinner and I went to just confirm that the taxi was actually coming which they are and pick up some eggs so we're all set now. Last night we dropped Everett off at the town to get to the airport. We had a final dinner. We tried to have some croissant crew but unfortunately all of the restaurants were closed. They always close in the afternoon. So we ended up having this saguette cheese and salmon sandwich on the steps of the shrine at the church. It was an interesting final meal. Anyway we loved having him. The two weeks went way too quickly but he is on his way back on the plane now so that's a good thing because when you have an internal flight and then an international with an overnight it kind of just gets a little complicated so we're really happy to hear that he made the connection early this morning. We are still in the Faray Anchorage but we are ready to go. Wow it's beautiful isn't it? We're gonna head south today down to the moorings down all the way in the south part of the island. We need to get on a mooring because I need to be able to fix our old bridle. Well that's one of our old bridles. The bridle that's really the one that I need to fix is actually still on because I'm using the shackles to tie the temporary bridle on. We'll figure it all out when we get there but that way we can work on fixing the bridle and be on the mooring at the same time so that'll be a good good fix. It's about six miles so it'll take I don't know an hour and a half or so. So that's what we're doing but first we are ordering our boom bang. We're ordering a bunch of things because thanks to our friend and someone who watches our YouTube channel Michael thank you so much he is coming to French Polynesia and he said he could bring a 50 pound bag for us which is just so kind and really really helpful. We are on a mooring ball and we're right on the shelf which is beautiful or very close to the shelf. If we turn I'm sure we'll be able to step right out. We're gonna check the mooring make sure it is good. We're gonna check the depths there make sure that also is good for us and then we get to relax a little bit. Oh actually no I gotta start working on the bridle. Brown and I are headed out to the front of the boat to deal with our bridle that has gotten all messed up because of the bad currents. Taking all the tools with us so we've got everything that we need and we've got to just remove the bridle so that I can re-splice it here on board. We're taking the dinghy so that we don't have to worry about dropping any of the parts because we can stick the dinghy right under it. So I just got to get my shoes because my broken toe still really hurts and I don't want to get on the dinghy without shoes otherwise I'm gonna hurt it again. We use seizing wire just in case the pin comes out. The seizing wire will hold it in or hold it so that we didn't lose it at least which is key but we've never even had it come loose which is great. It's so funny when we put these on we were so nervous we had no idea what we were doing. Remember the two guys were so nice in Marigot Bay? Yeah. They helped us. Brown's wearing a fishnet shirt. Pin looks good? Yeah. Mission success. Well almost mission success. I've got to go up front and see if I can wrangle it through the opening. That was the easy part now we've got the hard part ahead of us.