19/4/2015 0 Comments The gendarmes come for Helen.Entering French Polynesia on a yacht is a little more complex than arriving by plane. I simply needed a return ticket out of here which I will refund before it expires. The yacht had an agent who is paid a premium so that the crew don't need a ticket out of here or pay $1600 US cash as a refundable bond then report to the French police or gendarmes. Mark did all this and added me to the crew list. All paper work done as we were happily back on the boat enjoying happy hour in the harbour when another yacht yelled over to us to turn on our two way radio adding the gendarmes are looking for helen Petersen. Indeed they were, two of them were actually on the dock. I grabbed all paperwork and passports and zipped over in the motor dingy. They had no record of my arrival (because I'd come on a domestic flight )and wondered where I'd come from. Fortunately I had arrival stamps in Tahiti before I flew to another island and my ticket out. They seemed happy with this and didn't arrest me as an illegal visitor.
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