Last night after storing some fruits I went to the dance festival with the yacht club owner. It was pretty cold and still pretty windy- for Bora Bora! – but this did not hurt the dance performance! It was very different from all that I have seen so far. There were about 55 dancers who made the whole happening really spectacular. This was intensified by the deafening sounds of the drums and of all those other instruments that I had never seen before. Tonight there will be another performance and I definitely want to go and watch it again. Earlier this morning, I went to the traditional canoe race competition. It was very spectacular as they went super fast across the bay in their canoes. Canoe racing is the most important sport here in French-Polynesia, so the people here take it seriously and really have a go at it. But tomorrow I will set sail again – otherwise I would surely stay here forever. This means that I have to make my final preparations today: stowing my bicycle and the MiniCat back inside Guppy, clearing the mess inside the cabin and putting things back into the cabinets and of course refilling the watertank. And then it is on to where the wind takes me… I am thinking Niue.

Laura