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Maupihaa: Adventures in Atoll Living
How did we end up on a 100nm overnight voyage from Maupiti to Maupihaa with a local grandmother and a pile of supplies and food for the locals? While we were in Maupiti, another cruising boat reached out to us from Maupihaa, providing us contacts to organize the passage of a woman named Norma back…
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Society Islands Part 3: Mantas in Maupiti
Underway at sunrise, the seas were calm and the winds light, allowing for a “productive passage” of bread-baking, laundry, and water-making. The entry into the Maupiti lagoon via its one pass, Onoiau, can be tricky and was somewhat exciting. One cannot enter the pass unless there is less than a 2 meter swell; we had…