We Arrive in Fare, Huahine

We had a typically boisterous sail from Bora Bora to Apu Bay on Taha'a where we spent the night on a mooring. Next morning, we motored from Apu to the Uturoa pass about 1-1/2 hours, then from that pass to the pass on Huahine, another 6-1/4 hours: a long day. Even then, we were told that we couldn't anchor in the usual mooring/anchorage field and we had to motor more to the newly designated anchorage. Still, we got a good anchor set and had a nice afternoon and evening in Fare.

Big Blue, or that's what we call her. She's a RORO (roll on, roll off) design with a stern ramp for loading and unloading. This is the newer vessel but there's an older one that's been in service for as long as we've been coming.

This is a good photo of her open stern ramp and her unloading cargo and freight.

As you can see, the ramp is large enough for almost any vehicle or cargo load. The large tanks at lower left are gasoline carriers to supply the few service stations on Huahine. There is a second Big Blue, a Big Red, and the Apetahi Express, a passenger ferry. All operate among the Leeward Islands of the Society Islands, to and from Papeete.  Each island receives several visits by each vessel each week. 

The next day of our arrival in Fare, the main village on Hauhine, we pulled our anchor and departred for Avea Bay, my favorite in the area. This beautiful resort just didn't make it and we don't know why. It's been abandoned for many years.

After working for an hour to get the outboard running, we motored back to Fare for a promised and anticipated dinner at the Huahine Yacht Club. It was rocking! Here, Lovely Conni sips a MaiTai. What's for dinner? BURGERS AND FRIES!

We also visited the local, and largest, market on the island. It's a large store and one of our first stops, after the baguettes, was the booze aisle. Duh. Here, Lovely Conni peruses the rosé section. For those in the know, the shelves at upper left hold the Amer Picon.

Unavailble in the US, it's a major component of many turn-of-the-century cocktails created when it was available. Neither of us has ever seen the citron version in yellow.

Everything is open air, of course. We're sitting at our table inside since the outside tables were already reserved. Still, the view is qutie something.