Tamaro is a motu in Apataki Atoll, it is also the name of a pet nurse shark from Mr. Assan who is the patriarch of the Lau family. They own a pearl farm business and a boat dry storage up to 20 tonne and any width run by his son Alfred and his wife Pauline, with the help of Alfred's son Tony and his fiance Caroline.
The amazing thing about the shark is that at 2 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon he comes into the beach with half his body out of the water while Assam cuts fish on a board on top of his head and feeds him while he stays motionless, then he pats him as if he was a cat or dog.
We had a very short stay week in Apataki and enjoyed very much the hospitality of the Lau family. We also met several cruisers at anchor there and had lots of fun visiting, socializing and snorkeling. There are so many beautiful corals along the shore and close to the anchorage, it was appropriately named 'Coral-City' by our friends Eeva and Tapio (s/v Irene)'s grandchildren that visited them the previous year.
We also had our genoa fixed by Claude which is a sailmaker by trade and I feel a little better now, it was not a huge problem but could have cause problems especially in stronger winds.
Dinis helped another sailor Francois painting the bottom of his catamaran while in the boatyard and afterwards we had a sail with the company of other sailors and friends on his catamaran. The motion is so much different than a mono haul, but much more comfortable. Now Dinis is dreaming with doing another trip but in a catamaran...oh boy...
We had stronger winds for about 3 days, afterwards we made our way to the north eastern corner of the Atoll sailing along with s/v Irene. We met another sailboat in the northern anchorage and had a beautiful beach bbq the next day. We left the following morning early for our overnight sail to Fakarava Atoll.
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