Tahiti Ocean view, Moorea and Alita friends

Yesterday we had a gorgeous day for driving from Port Phaeton to Marina Taina. Blue sky and sunshine gave us a wonderful view over Tahiti. The downside, of course, was, that we had to motor. Well, you gotta die some way. I so much enjoyed the view. Also we had the chance to pass by our swiss friends Mares and this gave me the opportunity to take some pictures of them. Just look into the "friends" section.
Today we had a rather rolly and fast sail over from Marina Taina to Moorea afer we had bought tax-frree Diesel (only possible during the week, not on weekends!) and after I had been to the customs office again to clarify the procedure on how I get the tax from my purchase of the Kajak back. Well, once I am in Cook Island and have a proof that we are there I have to send the export from together with the proof to customs her ein Tahiti. They will stamp the export form and send it to the store where I bought the Kajak. They will hopefully then transfer the money to my account. We'll see. Yesterday I did the final Stock up on food at Carrefour. Now Alita has all her boxes full and we won't have to starve. Of course when the next guests come we have to stock for them, but other than that we're good for a while.
Moorea looks beautiful. Very green nad very interesting mountains. Tomorrow Marcus stays on board to relax and do some things on board while I go and start to explore the island. Saturday we will be travelling around the island on a 50PS moped. A great surprise today: we are parked right next to our friends on Saliander and State of Mind was also there, when we arrived. They left a bit later for Huahine where we will catch up with them. Mares wanted to join us coming over today but postponed it until the wind, which is quite strong today and the next couple of days, calms down again. Well, we won't see them in long, maybe in Tonga - like Anico and Duende.

Here are some pictures:
Tahiti oceanview http://sailing.smichah.de/#!album-65

 Wiki, my new yellow kajak

 View to Moorea

Moorea: http://sailing.smichah.de/#!album-66

 Marcus with his new toy: the 15hp/PS outboard from Yamaha. Now we can fly with the Dinghy.

Alita boatfriends: http://sailing.smichah.de/#!album-67
Here are some pictures of our closest friends

Styk (I don't really know how to spell him and I don't know the boat's name; Norway; left) and Duende (Holland; right) in Mangareva

 Anico (Germany; left in the sun) and Mares (Switzerland; right) at Tahanea

 Mares in front of Tahiti Nui yesterday

 State of Mind in Moorea today - our nieghbours to the left

 Saliander with Cruiseship "Paul Gaugin" in Moorea today - our neighbours to the right

 Anico (left) and Styk (right)