August 23, 2013
Now that the dreaded pass was behind us, we could really start to look around the lagoon and we were mesmerized by what we saw: large areas of aqua and turquoise water, long stretches of white sand beach, and rock islands strewn everywhere. It looked like we’d landed on an alien planet.
We could see a few boats anchored here and there. How did they know how to get in amid all that? At this point our only information was from cruisers who’d been here ahead of us. We had waypoints through the pass and across the lagoon to our first anchorage, but we’d be depending on the people already here for information about how to get around in this strange and fantastic world.
Below a gallery of pictures from our lagoon crossing (as always, click to enlarge and scroll). A couple of the photos are a little funky because I was having some difficulty with our Nikon camera (it was fogging up, not focusing well). We’ve done our best to fix them. –Cyndi
