Hotel Matira Bora Bora

... go along with our Shellback certificates. I think Bill is ready for land&#8212;he&#8217;s getting a little antsy. Personally I could stay for another cruise&#8212;this ship continues around Australia. Maybe next time!! I&#8217;ve found another repositioning cruise that travels between Miami and Barcelona Spain that I want to check out. <br><br> The shows here have been fantastic ...

Shipboard Life<br><br> We're now at 170 degrees longitude and headed toward the International Date Line, where we lose a day. At a question and answer session with the captain, one lady wanted to know if we would be moving from daylight to night. The shocked captain told her nicely that it would still be daylight and we only change the date. Only a few snickers! It is confusing, especially since we&#8217;ve ...

Pora Pora<br><br> Another day, another beautiful island. There is no B in the Tahitian language, so they call their island Pora Pora. It is truly a tropical paradise. They have 26 colors of water, and no photos can do the color justice. The island has a volcanic center completely surrounded by a lagoon, enclosed by coral reef. What makes it so beautiful are the sand beaches of the motus (tiny ...

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 ...

Sandy beaches, grass huts on stilts overlooking green and blue tropical waters...what's not to love here in French Polynesia.<br><br>I have uploaded a video slide show of the sights of the day. To view the video in a larger size, click on the small video icon in the blog post until it opens up in a larger window.<br><br>I hope you enjoy it!<br>T<br><br>

... sind ueberall und man muss, abseits der Horrorszenarien aus schlechten Hollywood-Filmen, etwas differenzieren. Am meisten sehen wir hier kleinere Haie, vor allem Schwarzspitzenhaie und graue Riffhaie. Sie fressen vor allem tote und kranke Fische am Riff und greifen keine Menschen an, auch nicht aus Verwechselung. Zitronenhaie und Hammerheads sind schon eine ganze Ecke groesser, aber seltener und sehr scheu. Tigerhaie oder weisse Haie, die bevorzugt Robben und ...

... had restored our faith in hitchiking after our scary vehicle experience in Hanoi.<br><br>The hotel was fabulous as they all have been in this last 3 weeks, the proper honeymoon bit! We had a room within the beautiful lush gardens surrounded by crazy Tiki statues. The lagoon incorporated a coral garden so we enjoyed some kayaking and snorkeling on a few occasions. We became aquainted here with the outrigger canoe - a contraption that looks like a ...

... mal von unserer Traumunterkunft wegbewegen, sehen wir auf einer organisierten Schnorcheltour nochmal Mantarochen unter uns hinwegschwimmen. Der Schnorchelplatz ist als Reinigungsstation fuer Mantas und andere Fische bekannt, wo kleine Putzerfische Parasiten und andere unwillkommene Dinge von der Haut der grossen Fische fressen. Stellenweise ist die Lagune so flach, dass man von der Hauptinsel bis zu einem der Motus auf der anderen Seite durch das Wasser ...

... us back 32.00 (worth the price if you ask us). Needless to say we spent the remainder of the day in the pool and enjoying the scenery. Then off to town to check out the local markets before heading back on the tender to the ship. Wonderful Day! Lessons Learned: - Bora Bora taxi drivers apparently do not have a speed limit (Yes Sara, similar to Mexico). - Huts over water are outrageously over-priced but yet you often find yourself still pondering the idea.

... parrotfish. I then spent the afternoon on our deck, enjoying the view, listening to my iPod and looking out for black-tipped reef sharks; I saw quite a few of them as they leisurely swam by our deck just before sunset.     The following day, we went for an island tour which included shark and manta ray feeding. We first visited the edge of the lagoon, a shallow area near one of the wave-breaking atolls. In the distance, huge waves from the open ocean pounded ...