Kauehi, Osprey Arrives

Woke up to gorgeous clear blue skies, even more beautiful gorgeous clear blue water after a great night sleep on anchor. While sailing, it's hard to sleep. Sleeping on anchor is so much easier. So we were all feeling pretty spry and perky drinking our coffee discussing what to cook when we saw a sail in the distance. Further investigation (binoculars) showed the sail to be our buddies, Osprey, who left Anaho Bay almost an hour ahead of us. Recall yesterday's post about arriving Kauehi after only 4 days of sailing. Sorry Osprey.

Ben and Rob hopped in the dinghy to get some video of Osprey under sail and let them know the ins and outs of the anchorage (lots of coral heads, hard sand) while I threw together some pancakes. When the anchor was set Brian and Richard joined us for breakfast and decided they liked arriving after us if it meant breakfast they didn't cook and didn't have to clean.

After breakfast I wanted to go swimming but had noticed these grey shapes swimming under the boat. As clear as the water is, it's still hard to identify fishes underwater. Especially if they have black tipped tails, like a blacktip shark. Rob nabbed one with his fly rod (catch and release) and it turned out to be a remora: the fish that attaches to sharks/whales and cleans their bodies. With a dark blue hull complete with keel and rudder, Kyanos must look like an odd whale. But the two little remora that hung out under us seemed to enjoy themselves. Don't worry, no remoras were harmed when we studied them.

The rest of the day was spent snorkeling, sitting in the shade, and staring at the projects that always need doing on a boat.

Osprey on anchor in Kauehi

Remora: cool fish that is not a shark. They look pretty shark like in the water.