Maitai Dream Fakarava

... und wartet am Abend auf ein Bewerbungsgespraech per Telefon, als sich die schon so entfernt liegende Insel zu kompletter Isolation entschliesst – Telefon, Internet, Handynetz, alles bricht auf einmal zusammen und laesst fast einen ganzen Tag auf seine Rueckkehr warten. Michael muss ganz schoen rudern, um die Situation bei seinem neuen Wunscharbeitgeber zu erklaeren, aber letztlich findet das Telefonat statt und seine Chancen stehen gut. Wir druecken die ...

... The shark or at least this Grey shark cannot breath if they stop to move: when they go in a stream like that: they can breath without too much effort. Then the monitor ask to leave the place, and to start to move with the stream: then you don t have to much to do, just flying like superman in the stream trying to follow you monitor to not get lost, but where it s funny: there are plenty of canyons and to keep the same speed than the other, you ...

... on a Motu: even more for them a Robinson Crusoe style. There was one man whose fixing all the church in Polynesia and he was fixing an Hotel (church main table) with part of shell found in the lagoon. Later on, I saw him cutting his fish to get some raw fish for the lunch in the middle of the sharks. Our guide as well did the same, he prepared some fish for the lunch to get some raw fish coco lemon and all the part that we were not eating were given back to sea : all the shark and ...

... enter to compensate the outside tide of the sea. Quite hard to bike under the sun but as the water of the lagoon in in atoll is never farer than 30 m on both side: I did some few stops to cool down and hopefully I had a lot of water as I m still very bad with the opening of coconut even with the very nice demonstration of yesterday night.

The first pictures come from the first pension where I landed which was nice but a little bite expensive for my budget. So I ask the diving center to come to pick me up in same time that they were driving to the diving club : on my way to my first dive on an atoll. I met all the team of instructors who gave me the instruction on the site and 10 min after we were already in the boat. The dive was interesting for me as it was the first time that I was going down ...

... living in Papeete that I will met for the first time in few days. I was looking a place to dive and to relax a little like a Marco Crusoe and I found this place. There is on all the Atoll 500 inhabitant (including tourist). I arrive in the end afternoon and I found a nice pension to spend the night before to go to another one the day after a lot cheaper. At least it was nice to see this pension as the owners were very nice and interesting: we discuss with ...

... bandages, pain-killers and forced smiles. Luckily there was already someone helping with the medical stuff 'cos I'm not so good with that kinda stuff. We were met on the deck with a wife in shock, some friends of theirs who were helping (Germans in their horrible Speedo's) & an evil-looking windlass with blood spatters all around. We spent a few hours on the pitching deck with squalls blasting past trying to put the chain back on the gypsy wheel. Each time ...

... af Carelbis besætning også tage del i det, dog mod betaling. Så det var en fremragende, lidt svedig dag, med både arbejde, fisk, fest og friskbrygget kaffe (for første gang i halvanden måned). Og Manihi på guitar med polynesiske sange. Og jeg fik en mig en ny bedste ven i form af Emma, fire-og-et-halvt-årig datter til to af gæsterne, Peter og Sandrine fra Australien. Jeg fik kun lov at tage tilbage til båden, hvis jeg ...