I was up late this morning because last night I tried to upload pictures to the website for several hours, unfortunately without any success! I was half awake when a sailor I know from Tahiti suddenly came fulspeed around the corner in his dinghy. He said that he was anchored further in another bay, and he asked me whether I would like to go along with a few other people to a spot where rays and blacktip reef sharks eat out of your hand. Yes, of course I would! So then, as I was in the water over there, they all swam around and sometimes bumped into us, even if you did not have anything to eat with you. And they were certainly not small, that’s for sure! At first, I did not feel very safe, but it really was a great experience! Back on Guppy, I take the mainsail of to get it looked over. Someone who works aboard a mega-yacht anchored here in the bay made the offer to me, and since it is not a bad thing to check, I gratefully accepted. You might think that Guppy’s sails would be damaged by strong winds, but it’s quite the contrary.The sails mostly wear out from too less or even no winds. Of course, I was given a guided tour of the yacht. Wow, it is so mega-big and extremely luxurious! Guppy’s main mast (17 meters or 55,7 feet) can only reach to the lowest of five spreaders of the mega-yacht’s mast…

Laura