Suwarrow, Cook Islands 21 Aug 2010 13.2476S 163.1084W

We arrived yesterday around noon in another beautiful anchorage with 5 other boats, 3 of which we’d met in the Marqueses. As we progress the cruising community gets tighter and we realize despite the large number of boats out here, it’s actually pretty small, friendly, and everyone watches out for each other. We’re back in atoll territory, amazing water colors, rugged outer reef, beautifully populated coral heads, protected flat anchoring, low motus, coconut trees, nesting terns, miles of beachcombing, and a plethora of sharks. We emptied one half bucket of water with just a little bit of fish blood in it and got a swarm of 10 little blacktip reef sharks. We’ll need to find another place to clean fish if we hope to swim around the boat much. Swimming with one or two nearby doesn’t bother me, but 10 – that’s another story! We received an incredibly warm welcome from the 2 park rangers that live here 6 months out of the year, all rumors we’d heard about their friendliness and love of this place appear to be true. We were thinking we’d stay 10 days or so, we’ll see if we can stick to that, I think it’s one of those places that will be hard to leave.

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