APATAKI RETURN

We returned to Apataki for the final 12 days of the 2020 season in the South Pacific. The top three pictures are taken in the pass entering Apataki. You can see the tide ripping and get a feel for the passes that allow entrance to most of the atolls. A few of the atolls have no pass or a pass so shallow a sailboat can’t enter. The rest of the pictures were taken in the anchorage outside Apataki Carenage where Painkiller will get hauled. You can see the masts from the boats in the yard towering above the trees in the picture above this text. Onshore there are the homes of the family that own the carenage and a covered place with a table for sailors to access very iffy wifi. Ken is sitting there looking at his phone-probably looking up Patriots news.