{"id":126,"date":"2007-05-01T05:06:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/baie-des-vieges-fatu-hiva\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","slug":"baie-des-vieges-fatu-hiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Baie des Vieges, Fatu Hiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/479456924\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/479456924_d959376dbd_m.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/479456924\/\">Baie des Vieges, Fatu Hiva<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tWe have arrived safely in Baie des Vierges (Bay of Virgins) on<br \/>\nthe island of Fatu Hiva, the most southern island of the<br \/>\nMarquesas.  After arriving, Laura recited the blessing for dry<br \/>\nland that her sister Diane sent her (&#8220;Baruch Atah Adonai<br \/>\nEloheinu Melech HaOlam Rokah HaAretz Al HaMayim.&#8221; Blessed are<br \/>\nyou Lord our G-d King of the Universe who spreads the dry land<br \/>\nout over the water.<\/p>\n<p>The island came into view through the clouds of a squall just<br \/>\nafter dawn.  It was so incredible that we deviated course to<br \/>\nsail down much of the east side of the island and then around<br \/>\nthe southern end before heading north to the anchorage.  The<br \/>\ntrip from the Galapagos took exactly 19 days (and 30 minutes,<br \/>\nbut who is counting?).  The last day we sailed in the company<br \/>\n(that is, within VHF radio hailing distance) of &#8220;Afriki&#8221;, who is<br \/>\nsingle-handed by Ian, a Canadian (born in Fort Gary outside<br \/>\nWinnepeg) who we met in Academy Bay in the Galapagos.  As we<br \/>\ncame into the bay, Uva, our German friend from the Galapagos,<br \/>\nzipped out in his dinghy to give us some information on<br \/>\nanchoring.  The bay is very deep, has poor holding, and there<br \/>\nare big gusts of wind coming down from the steep mountain sides.<br \/>\n   We chose to try for the centerline of the bay, as Uva had<br \/>\nsuggested, but the furthest in we could come was 38 meters of<br \/>\nwater.  We dropped the anchor just as an intense rain squall<br \/>\nbegan, soaking both of us.  The anchor would not hold even<br \/>\nthough we put down every link of chain that we have (80 meters).<br \/>\n   Uva has 120 meters of anchor rode so this is doable for his<br \/>\nboat.  We hauled all of our chain and the anchor back aboard and<br \/>\ncircled around looking for another possibility when we saw<br \/>\nJean-Francoise and Karin of &#8220;Intiaq&#8221; motioning us over.  They<br \/>\nwere close to the steep cliff on the south side of the bay.<br \/>\nThey said that we should anchor between them and the cliff and<br \/>\nthat is was safe to do so as a boat that had left just an hour<br \/>\nbefore had been there for three days.  It was a mere 25 meters<br \/>\nin this place and this time the anchor held.  We celebrated with<br \/>\ncold diet cokes, cans of tuna, and crackers, followed by a 90<br \/>\nminute nap.  This afternoon we spent some time on Sabbatical III<br \/>\nwith Ian and later with Uva and Beatrice, Uva&#8217;s wife.  We put<br \/>\naway our downwind poles and other gear and tried to make some<br \/>\norder down below. We have not left the boat yet &#8212; something to<br \/>\nlook forward to tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>    Baie des Vierges in incredibly beautiful.  It is a deep<br \/>\nindent on a small island that is just huge cliffs rising up from<br \/>\nthe sea.  At one end of the bay are a set of rocky pillars that<br \/>\nled the orginal visitors to name the bay &#8220;Baie des Verges&#8221; (Bay<br \/>\nof the Phalli) because of the shape of these pillars.<br \/>\nMissionaries that followed disapproved and  added an &#8220;i&#8221; to the<br \/>\nname which made it Bay of the Virgins.<\/p>\n<p>     We have a lot more to add about our passage and this<br \/>\nbeautiful place but that will have to await a full nights sleep,<br \/>\na luxury that we have not had in three weeks.  A photo is<br \/>\nattached that hopefully gives some idea of the look of this bay.<br \/>\n   Our location is South 10 degrees 28 minutes, West 138 degrees<br \/>\n40 minutes, and is no longer constantly changing.<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baie des Vieges, Fatu Hiva. We have arrived safely in Baie des Vierges (Bay of Virgins) on the island of Fatu Hiva, the most southern island of the Marquesas. After arriving, Laura recited the blessing for dry land that her sister Diane sent her (&#8220;Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech HaOlam Rokah HaAretz Al HaMayim.&#8221; Blessed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baie des Vieges, Fatu Hiva&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-pacific-the-marquesastuomotussocieties-and-cooks-2007","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}