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We only wanted to stop quickly for some shopping, but unfavourable winds held us for 3 weeks. Makemo is a huge atoll with a bommy-strewn lagoon, a relatively big town, and copra plantations everywhere.

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1/30: Breakers fringing the main pass of Makemo
2/30: The pier is a popular place to hang out.
3/30: View from our anchorage behind the pier.
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5/30: Failed project: this windfarm only worked a few months...
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8/30: Shopping!
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10/30: Northern reef on a calm day
11/30: Virtually all motus have just coconut monoculture
12/30: Hubert's manicured little garden in the very east
13/30: Bringing Kopra to the village. The next cargo ship will take it to Tahiti.
14/30: One of many kopra sheds...
15/30: ...with a pile of rubbish behind it.
16/30: Two lovely tiny motus in the south-east
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19/30: Sand picture
20/30: Started a paint job on the aft deck
21/30: Sand from the motu for the nonskid layer
22/30: Empty paint-job locker
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26/30: A Sooty Tern. Only very few undisturbed spots on Makemo remain for the birds.
27/30: Mount Makemo (at least 10m high)--yes, after 3 months of flat motus we missed mountains.
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30/30: Curious black-tip baby