Pic - Tahanea Motu - First Atoll and Reef Pass

Here's a picture you'll never see in a travel brochure for French Polynesia and the "idyllic" So. Pacific. This is what it's really like - at times - like our arrival at our destination motu. We waited for a break between squalls to transit the pass into the flat calm waters of the atoll. They say that there has been much more of this type of wet and stormy weather in the Tuamotus so far this year (2016). ("Shoulda been here last year - the weather was sunny and great!")