After a windless crossing of 30 hours I arrived in Bora Bora. As it often is with atoll islands, I first had to sail around the whole island to find the small passage in the reef to enter into the lagoon. Still at sea I had spotted a nice place to anchor, and since a big yacht was already anchored there, I believed it was deep enough, but not so! I made it halfway towards the anchorage through the reefs when it became evident I was too optimistic. I suddenly bumped into a large brain coral. Although it was a very soft collision, Guppy was not too grateful to me for that. The same with the second attempt, and after the third one I gave up because it was getting dark. Bye-bye nice anchorage. So then I had to choose between a too deep or a too shallow anchorage. The sea bottom is all the same here, its going strait down to more than 50 meters [164 feet] deep in a few meters from the island or the coral reefs! Since it was fast getting dark, I went to dock to the first mooring-buoy I could reach. I don’t find this an ideal spot to dock because I don’t trust those buoys. You never know how long they have been there, and they might have rottened over time. Well then, Guppy is now safe and tomorrow will be another day to look for another place, ideally one ‘Gup’ can go to without bouncing over corals..

Laura