We are currently anchored on the left side of the Avarapa Pass, southern Moorea at 17deg35.599S, 149deg775W, just inside a great right hander, paddling distance from the back of shimmi. We left Tahiti this morning and had a great broad reach over to Moorea, only 14 miles which we did in under 2 hrs. The lagoon here is not as well charted as the lagoon's on Tahiti, so we had to drive around a bit, using our polariods to see where the reefs are. But we found a good place to drop the pick, in 10 m on sand, about 100 meters from the wave. Now that we have surfed Teahupoo, all other waves look a bit "mild"! This right hander is a fun wave with barrel sections, cutback sections etc, I had to go dust off my 6'0 four fin, I struggled to re-adjust to surfing a small right hander after the madness of Teahupoo's crazy drops and insane pigdog barrels. In fact this is the first right hander that we have surfed since Galapagos!
Josh and Indie are great, lovely snorkelling just off the back of the boat, Indie is now happy to doggy paddle on his own with water wings on. Josh, well he is a little fish. Moorea is a stunning island, its worthwhile to google earth it, Cook's Bay in the north is world famous. The diving around here is supposed to be world class with rays, sharks and 1000's of fish. Hopefully i can shoot something for the pot which does not have cigatuera poison.
There is a fun left hander on the other side of Avarapa pass, Chantal is going to give that a go tomorrow.
