cont.
First, I sailed to Fatu Hiva Island. It was beautiful, though the anchorage was pretty fair-to-middling. The downslope wind from the mountains often makes the yachts trail their anchors; I guess I would have easily got into trouble if I’d depended on the flimsy chain I had so I trusted my intuition and sailed away. I didn’t make a stop at the next island on my way only because they wrote in the guidebook there were too many sharks to swim there. OK, maybe not this time :)
So I am now on Nuku Hiva and this is where I am writing from.

As I was sailing into the bay, my little school of fish surrounded Tanasza, and I found myself in a kind of bubble of enormous blue sea creatures. I couldn’t make a photo because the battery in my camera had just run down; Still, I shed a tear or two because there were more than 50 fish there, swimming side by side, escorting me till the end of the bay and jumping out of the water all the time, just as if they wanted to say goodbye – that’s actually what I thought because they were already gone when I finally dropped the anchor.

There was someone to greet me, though. It was Jasiek, the friend of mine I had met in Panama. Oh, it was great to see him again!

http://polonia.pap.pl  (here you can find Jasiek’s blog, describing for instance our meeting on the Marquesas Islands;

The evening closed with a shower and the delicious dinner with Roger and Bernadette (the crew of the yacht I know from Panama). I was so happy to be in the place I’d heard so much of before…

In the morning, it turned out that the outboard motor of the pontoon didn’t work. Jasiek was trying to fix it all day long; in the meantime, the pontoon got punched so we had to put it ashore, then dry and use some glue. There was also a bathe in the sea and the first unsteady steps on the land. Jasiek did his best to make me feel ‘taken care of,’ treating me to pancakes and the homemade bread… salt was also in abundance

The island is beautiful, and so are the people deep in their hearts; Tanasza is full of fruits, as they have the best grapefruits in the world here. Sometimes I feel like climbing up the trees and picking up some lemons or knocking avocados or papayas with a machete fastened to the stick. 
They have the third largest waterfall in the world here, but one would need to scurry for 4 hours deep into the island to see it, or alternatively, sail to the other bay. In the place where I am staying now is the biggest town on the Marquesas Islands – a few cobbled streets where you can still see people riding on horseback to get some milk (wonderful!) or chickens bustling around you that you have to catch and kill if you want to eat them…

To be continued. For now, I’d like to say that Mirosław Sziwa – yep, the one that designed the Nat 17.2 yacht – has also prepared the project of the billboard. Check it out, you can also vote for it!

http://www.mfestiwal.pl/mbillboard/97