This afternoon after preparing the boat for sea we weighed anchor and motored out of the harbor. It was about 4pm and the skies were overcast and in the anchorage there was a light wind from the West. Our goal is Wallis, an island (French administered) about 200 miles due West of Samoa. We were hoping the wind was caused by the land effect wrapping the wind around the Western tip of the bay. When we got outside the pass we found the wind 10-12k from the West and we turned around and went back in and anchored. Motoring into the wind hoping for a shift seems like a fools errand to us. We will leave tomorrow morning at 6am if the weather is even remotely acceptable (i.e. calm is ok, wind from the W is not).