a note

 

Hey everyone.

 

All is well here.   Just made it to Taiohae Bay (for the second time) on Nuku Hiva Island of the Marquesas.

Everything just gets better and better.  Good friends—some great sailing recently.  I had an amazing event happen in Daniel's Bay.  The biggest flood in remembered history.  It was devastating.  The village there was okay, but their trees, which are their livelihood were ravaged.  It was hard to know just how bad things were. 

But they were resilient and needed little from us.  (Nothing, actually.)  It reminded me so much of Hurricane Hugo and our pecan orchard, the flooding of the Wateree River.  Terrible stuff.

 

Everything here is marvelous, always meeting new people.  I have decided to skip the Tuomotos—they are too dangerous without an engine.  They are only atolls, so you have to enter the reefs through narrow channels often with strong currents.

Another day with another boat.

 

Please, please keep my Uncle Richard in mind.  He has been having facial surgery due to a terrible accidental shooting.  Please keep him in mind, and his family.  All seems to be going well, but it is hard for me being so out of touch.  I love them very very much.

 

 

Take care and thank you for all the concern.   

--
Jonah Manning
S/V Araby


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