Completely self-sufficient village of Tetamanu

We are still in Fakarava and we just can't seem to get enough of this place.
There is a lot to see above and below the water.
We go ashore and take a stoll through the houses, solar installs and visit a beautiful church, the first church built in the Tuamotu Archipelago in 1874, completely made out of coral rock and spectacular both in an out.
We snorkel the Tetamanu pass again.... multiple times as we love it. The water temperature changes from cold to warm as you glide through the pass using the incoming current for propulsion.
We hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for watching.
Thank you to Tunetank for the music
Song: Dima Tyshko - Night Sky
Music provided by Tunetank.
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[@FrankJamger]

A lovely shoreline with its natural pools. I've noticed that even the ruins of a tropical village are somehow attractive. Wow, the guy at 5:10 sure takes advantage of the sunny climate! Your three minutes of reef footage is, again, par excellence. What a view e.g. at 9:19!

[@SailingMokara]

Hi Frank. Thanks for watching another Fakarava video. There will be one or two more to follow as we spent quite a bit of time here. The marine life is fantastic. There is no fishing taking place around here that we saw and the fish are also not scared of us so we can get really close to them. We enjoy the company of the reef sharks, coral trough and grouper along this coral wall.

[@jna9888]

I will happily watch more videos of "this place"! The water clarity is unbelievable; we're used to Florida Gulf slightly opaque (or worse with storms). Thanks again for yet another relaxing episode!

[@SailingMokara]

Hi, Thanks for watching. Claire and I talk about Fakarava all the time and we know that we will go back there. The hope is that it doesn't get developed. The water clarity is on another level and you can look at fish whilst motoring on the dinghy. We have a couple more videos of Fakarava to come.

[@bodgewil]

Always a fresh straight forward view of places in the world that you take us to. Just a natural way you have filmed and shown us. I am an avid fan and have been for a long time as it's interesting and fresh. I have literally learnt alot about sailing, places that you visited , people you meet. Keep on posting as I avidly keep combing the weather channel for more of your episodes which I am happy to say started on the 22 may. So I am a happy puppy. Being in Zim your endeavours are followed by myself religiously.

[@SailingMokara]

Hi. We are just down the road at the moment. We flew into Cape Town from Australia to visit family. Zim is an incredible place and we loved it when we went there. It was many years ago though. I saw your message as we sat down for dinner last night and my mom sent me a message saying we were on TV. We haven't yet seen ourselves on the Weather Channel and unfortunately we ended up missing it.

[@RebelRobin501]

Good video

[@SailingMokara]

Thanks

[@Maloy7800]

Oh wow! Dylan's voice went another octave down!

[@SailingMokara]

You should hear him now. I don't think it can go much lower.

[@Maloy7800]

@@SailingMokara I hope I will!!! Hmmm.... singing lessons for Dyl. Imagine this: (I tried posting a link to a video but youtube in its infinite wisdom deleted the comment, so you will have to look up Orribile lo Scempo by Dmitry Hvorostovsky. 🙂)

[@rileythomps]

Hello! Weird thing, I went to the same primary school as Nathan!

[@SailingMokara]

Wow, that is weird. Nice little school. Thanks for watching our videos

[@Maloy7800]

What a lovely church!!! And yes, Nate, answering your question (7:00) the dome is what gives the church an echo. But echo in a church is actually a bad thing - the sounds just reflects from all sides and singing/chanting becomes just cacophony. To reduce the echo to a nice reverberation, you need to make openings in the dome, so that the echo dies down after a certain number of repetitions. Unfortunately, the art of tuning the echo inside large rooms is lost now.

[@SailingMokara]

Hi Maloy, Thanks for providing some background regarding the echo in this building. It would be interesting to go to a service here to hear what it sounds like with a choir singing at full tilt. We will have to go back one day.

[@Maloy7800]

Before you dove into a pack of those lovely fishes, did you for one second stop to think, WHY they are called SNAPPER? 😀

[@SailingMokara]

Napoleon Wrasse included in strange fish names. The Snapper are great to swim amongst and maybe thinking about the name to much would put you off from swimming with them. Wait and see what the boys swim with in Moorea.

[@Maloy7800]

@@SailingMokara Oh let me guess... Great White Shark!? Nah, you'd be too happy being childless again to post videos. Uhm... I can't think of anything, so I guess I'll have to wait. ARGH!

[@Maloy7800]

@@SailingMokara It does look a bit like Napoleon as portrayed in various movies, doesn't it.

[@Maloy7800]

Someone stole my idea for retirement. A big house on some remote island, a huge solar array, big battery bank, a jetty and a boat to bring in marbled beef steaks. BLISS!!!

[@SailingMokara]

Fakarava would definitely be on my list. Getting the marbled beef there could be a problem though.

[@Maloy7800]

@@SailingMokara Meh, express mail will deliver anything. There MUST be a post office somewhere in the area. Because marbled beef steaks are a deal breaker for me.

[@barryhosford568]

Hi Shaun & family. What are Bommies?

[@SailingMokara]

Hi. Good question. They are coral formations that rise up towards the waters surface. You may be sailing in 5 meters of water and could pass one of these all of a sudden and they sit just below the waters surface. Dangerous for yachts. Typically they are not shown on navigational charts. Navionics (Electronic chart software) does however allow sailors to upload the location of these to electronic charts for other sailors to see. They usually have amazing snorkelling around them.

[@barryhosford568]

@SailingMokara Thanks for the good info. I love watching your adventures. Much appreciated.

[@Maloy7800]

Is there anyone on this planet you can't make friends with, Shawn!? You went to talk to the wild bulls on some remote island. Now you've befriended some wild dogs who "might come out barking at you". They also sometimes come out biting, 3,000 nm away from the nearest immunoglobulin shot. Good lord!

[@Maloy7800]

Breaking news about Mokara familly. Sean Mokara, his long-suffering wife (name withhead for privacy) and their two sons Oliver and Huckleberry, have successfully defected to North Korea from the oppressive regime of Charles III The Who?. They are now safe but in hiding since the MI7 have sworn on the April issue of GQ to bring them back for their exams. Source: Daily Post