17º 30.044s 149º 29.795w
Sat Aug 24 2019
Isabel
and I managed to find time to enjoy a few movies during our time anchored at
Moorea. Picking out a flick for the evening it always a palaver, and one of my
tasks. There’s a lot of risk as sometimes it takes a good while to determine
that a movie really sucks and simply isn’t going to get better, and by then
we’ve invested up to an hour of our lives. Hey – we’re not getting any younger
so it’s important to optimize every minute of the day. We could have whipped
out our Kindles and read a good book instead!
The
first movie we ever purchased was “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”. It’s a Coen
brothers flick, and I’m pretty sure any movie they make I’ll watch with great
enthusiasm. George Clooney does a great hillbilly in that movie, and there’s
bluegrass and clogging so my toes get to tapping. Well, a couple nights ago we
watched a flick called “Logan Lucky”. Wow. Channing Tatum is the star and he
turns in a good performance, but the fellow who plays his brother Clyde totally
steals the show. Adam Driver is an actor who can dead pan like no one else, and
his West Virginia hillbilly is stunning to behold. Isabel was astonished to
realize that one of the other characters, an imprisoned safe cracker named “Joe
Bang” was actually Daniel Craig, most recently star of the James Bond series.
I’m pretty sure Isabel couldn’t believe such a refined English actor would even
be willing to portray a hillbilly, but I do believe Daniel Craig did get to
practice his ‘Merican accent in “Cowboys and Aliens” so perhaps that helped a
bit. In any case, he was pretty spectacular.
Wups,
there I was pontificating on how familiar this hillbilly movie felt to me, when
I heard this loud huffing noise. Turns out a pair of what I think are humpback
whales just wandered into the anchorage here at Point Venus, and they decided
to hang out for about 15 minutes within a stones throw of JollyDogs. There’s
not much more exciting to us than to have a couple of 20 meter long mammals
wandering around in close proximity, especially when we’re anchored and there’s
no risk of us colliding with them. Neither of them seemed to take any notice of
us, but they at least seemed aware JollyDogs was there and avoided bumping her
or even scratching themselves on her anchor chain. Wow.
Isabel
made a killer meal of lamb shanks for dinner. Well, it is Winter here, and we
actually do have a blanket on the bed. Amazing supper, and we found the red
wine we had bought to cook the lamb to be quite “quaffable”. Life is good.
Darned
if Pat and Celine from SV Voila didn’t ring us up on WhatsApp during dinner.
WhatsApp is about the only way we’re happy to talk with folks over the phone,
as the Google Fi calls are 20 cents per minute. Those things add up! Pat and
Celine are keen to come sailing with us around the Marquesas and down to the
Gambiers, so with luck they’ll join us in February or so and hang out for a few
weeks. We reckon we’ll blow out of the Marquesas by February or so, then spend
about 6 weeks in the Gambiers before starting a slow trek Westward through the
Tuamotus and back towards the Society Islands. The Heiva festival is in early
July, and we’re aiming to enjoy it downrange in the leeward islands, likely
Huahine, before puttering on towards Tonga. We are culture freaks, although
many would accuse us of being cultural infidels.
We’re
figuring Mike may visit us a bit, maybe with Tami at a shore based facility, so
the Tuamotus will be best for that. Jim and Darda are the kind of folks who
will show up and they’re also great sailors so hopefully we’ll have them
aboard. It’s disappointing how many folks won’t make the time or take the risk
to come so far, but we used to have jobs and lives and all that so we do
understand. Sort of.
It’s
all good. . .
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