heading..to Tamakohua inside Fakarava..

So.. After about 2 hours of sailing from Ohavana, heading SW inside
Fakarava towards the southern pass of Tamakohua, we sighted a very
beautiful, very remote, luxury hotel built on stilt's over a groomed
white coral beach ...Ummmmm dreamy... a landscaped beach!!
aaaaahhhh...... we could clearly see an infinity of white cotton
hammocks, call us in.... With an empty mooring buoy ... shouting ..
MMMMIKE , VERONICA!! over here..!!. come swing on meee!!.... . Beyond
was a fluttering of Sunfish sailing dinghy's, their tasteful blue & white sails stood silhouetted against the perfect straight palm
tree's, bathed in the warm 10 knots of breeze from NE ... Simply too
opulent to pass by.... Was that a small restaurant in the distance?
Ummmm probably serving ....mmmmmmm ............ This looked
definitely like the ultimate commercial for the Tuamotu Islands...

Well,....... The closer we got .. The more beautiful it looked, but
the more deserted it looked ? Veronica & Apple (dog) both looked at me with a slight edge of concerned.... I reassured them both, by
suggesting that this was probably a 5 star hotel & thus had very few
guest's ...... due to the current economic recession? Um? ... then let
my imagination free with what the restaurant might be serving tonight...

Cut to: Whilst attaching "Apple" (yacht) to the mooring bouy.. I
expected to see.. ummmm Perhaps .."one living person".. Maybe an
occasional beach guard? Or perhaps a polynesian waiter or maybe the
hotel masseur waving at us...! , maybe even the hotel manager? ... . but nobody... empty... "sounds familiar" ... emptiness...strange? ..
Dare I say..."no sign of life" ..AGAIN!! ....

So we simply lowered the tender ( small dinghy) went ashore. "Did i
mention the beach was landscaped?" or exactly how soft the white
fluffy towels were?... Or how infinitely fine the sand grains felt
between our toes.?.... Anyway... to cut a long story short.. The
beach was completely deserted, the restaurant empty... confused?...
You will be...!! So After an hour of swimming, wallowing in fresh
fluffy towel's, swing in hammocks.... We finally I saw a human
life... HUMAN LIFE... people!!! In the form of a.... ... Speed boat
full of european tourists, all holding big camera's with massive
telescopic lenses... all focusing at Veronica, Apple ( dog) & Me? As
we simply sat on our now private hotel beach.... Looking very
confused back at this strange gaggle of tourists in a little speed
boat..?.. suddenly after 10 minutes of pointing & picture
taking..... They simply sped off into the distance.... EVEN
STRANGER??? ? Things were getting a little weird? Suddenly a
gardener appears from behind a palm tree... he appears so focused on
delicately grooming each grain of sand on the beach, sooo very
polite, as he delicately cleaned around our/his towels.. Not wanting
to disturb our sun bathing.....

Anyways, he being the only accessible life form.. I was determined to
find out what time the restaurant staff would return.....?
Well, I guess after a little translation from Veronica.. Well, I
guess...... I/we suddenly realized.. Ummmmm....We became had
unexpected guest's of the French senates private house.. He was
luckily away, occupying his seat in Senate in Paris.. I guess the
gardener thought we were supposed to be there as the yacht ...sort of
fitted the location, he said he's arrange for the cook to come down
shortly .. & he simply carried on with his cleaning business, we.....
well we decided not to push our luck any further.. So i told the
gardener, we'd be eating on board "Apple" tonight...& return to our
yacht ASAP before leave very early the following morning..