Hotel La Pirogue Tahaa

Oh no, we've lost Tuesday! For the past two days we’ve had to change our clocks at night, making it an eight hour time difference from Michigan. Today however we have entered the eastern hemisphere and somehow we lost Tuesday the 13th. We’re now on Wednesday the 14th. For the life of me I can’t tell you what time it would be at home. We do have the t-shirts though ...

... of the time we do the buffet, as we’re hot and ready for the pool. Mornings are spent sunning around the pool and reading, relaxing in the pool to cool off, or relaxing in the hot tub. You’ll notice the key word here is relaxing. Usually there are activities around the pool which make for good viewing (see Mr. Rhapsody or pool volleyball, girls!) Then it’s lunch around 2pm followed by ...

... reading this blog the opportunity to take my work from me for free. It is so easy to screen capture or download almost any image from the WEB, so a slide show allows me to share my work in a way that is interesting yet produces small quality screen captures. Forgive me for this, I hope that you will choose to still enjoy the slide show photo presentation format.<br>

We over-nighted in Bora Bora, many crew members went ashore to enjoy a night on the beach or a stay in one of the grass hut hotel accommodations.<br><br>I went to bed and slept in until about 11:15AM. I needed the rest. <br><br>I had IPM again today and so after eating lunch I headed to the crew training room to take care of some lessons I needed to complete and then headed ...

... norm, and he had the gift of a flower lei for us both.<br><br>As we drew nearer our resort, the true size and magic of the place really came to life. We were taken through to the grand hotel reception and then onwards to our beautiful overwater bungalow. The bathroom bigger than our lounge at home, a huge bed with soft egyptian cotton and a glass coffee table - significant as it was glass all the way through so we could watch the fishes! We could ...

What a wonderful day!! I woke up at 7am to the ship leaving the Raiattea dock and cruising on over to Tahaa. There was no dock there, we just anchored inside the bay. I had some breakfast with the whole fam and then we took these boats called Tenders that hold about 50 people and they took us over to the ships own private island. They had beach chairs and umbrellas set up. We swam and snorkled and kayaked. I got to ...

... Island. This was a tourist holiday atmosphere where Easter Island was its natural, no frills self. Here we were certainly getting the frills! We ate supper in the hotel's restaurant and although the menu was not elaborate, it was good. An early night followed as we were still adjusting from the time change yesterday. Wednesday 12th Up at 6.15 for an early breakfast (what happened to the holiday frills?) As we were getting dressed there was a sudden heavy rain shower which lasted ...

... on your view) from there. Of course ending up in BM where I could not help myself get behind the bar and introduce people to the 'Blown out flip-flop' shot, which went down well!! Val returns from her well earned break, along with crew for the next hop, Richard from Russell, so that should make for good entertaining crew, he likes a glass or two of vino.

... fresh fish and fruit are colorfully arranged on the plate with a fushia colored hibiscus flower added for decoration. The meal was as good as it looked and it is getting close to the time we are supposed to meet the boat to take us back to the motu. The rest of the afternoon is spent sunning, floating in the water, and dozing underneath the tall palm trees on the motu. About as perfect an afternoon as one could have on Polynesian motu - seclusion, sun and sand.

... very gorgeous young man appeared with a tub of fish. Tom spoke with him while Ardice ogled subtly. (Paul had returned at this point.) The man was from Canada but was part Tahitian. He rows on his surfboard from Tahaa to Tautau, towing his bucket. No wonder! Kevin took a bottle of Heineken and filled it (once he had drank the beer!) with sea water and sand. Art! Art! Paul too the bottle, filled it entirely with sand and proclaimed it a pedestal for the grate over the firepit ...