Jacques Cou-who ? Diving with sharks and navigating the Fakarava food desert
The dangerous sharks are 50% bigger and don't typically enter the reef... so far It's really "game on" now. This is the real South Pacific. Finding food? Not that easy. Being food? Watch out....that's not too hard, as the shark population easily outnumbers the people here. So perfect it looks like a movie set..........our swimming hole We're hanging out in Fakarava, in the Tuamotus. In a few weeks (hopefully), there will be East South East wind which will make possible our jump to the Marquesas. But until then, we've established a comfortable routine of swimming, diving, boat projects, and yes sailing. Sailing? Thanks to SV Creampuff for this pic of L'ORIENT Fakarava is a large atoll, basically a ring of land running roughly North West to South East. Inside this ring is about 30 miles of "ocean" (really more like a lake). When traveling from the North to the South, you're not really in the ocean unless you leave through a pass. So think o