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Yesterday the situation we had prepared for ocurred: a sudden 180-degree windshift to the south, the wind picked up to 20-30 knots within minutes and a cloudy sky that made the reefs invisible–luckily we just had to put on our rain gear and follow our GPS track to get safely back over the 8 miles to the sheltered anchorage on the southern side of the lagoon. During the night the wind went down (and remained south) and this morning the weather was perfectly sunny again. We picked up the anchor and explored further westwards along the southern barrier reef. What a difference to yesterday: Pitufa was gliding over flat waters just pulled by the genoa on a beam reach, passing white sand banks, tiny motus with a few palm trees on them, the numerous reefs were easily visible, glittering like saphires in the dark blue of the lagoon. Yesterday the situation we had prepared for ocurred: a sudden 180-degree windshift to the south, the wind picked up to 20-30 knots within minutes and a cloudy sky that made the reefs invisible–luckily we just had to put on our rain gear and follow our GPS track to get safely back over the 8 miles to the sheltered anchorage on the southern side of the lagoon. During the night the wind went down (and remained south) and this morning the weather was perfectly sunny again. We picked up the anchor and explored further westwards along the southern barrier reef. What a difference to yesterday: Pitufa was gliding over flat waters just pulled by the genoa on a beam reach, passing white sand banks, tiny motus with a few palm trees on them, the numerous reefs were easily visible, glittering like saphires in the dark blue of the lagoon. I know I repeat myself, but today’s anchorage tops all others we’ve seen here: a densely forested motu with a white sand beach framed by shallow reefs with thousands of colourful fishies and Pitufa’s floating in the middle of a turquoise swimming pool