Maitai Polynesia Bora Bora

... traveled folks, few people are seasick. Good day to catch up on my pictures. Bill’s reading the guidebook to get some idea where we’re headed.

Tonight they decided we haven’t had enough to eat, so a chocolate buffet was set up in the Centrum. With the orchestra playing and everyone dressed up, it was a great time. Every detail is taken care of here.

... lost track of what day or date it is. This is the most relaxing thing we’ve ever done. I’ll use this blog to describe some of our shipboard life. We have the cutest cabin attendant, Gene, who sings up and down the corridor as he works. Every night another cute towel animal appears while we’re at dinner. We usually get up, walk a mile on the track top deck, then head for breakfast ...

Once again I stayed on the ship for IPM, but today was rainy and humid. I planned to go to the pool, but the weather caused me to rethink that plan quickly.

I enjoyed working on some of my photos and creating more slideshows. You may wonder why I don't post more photos, why am I posting mostly just video slideshows?

As a photographer I don't wish to allow ...

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.

I went to bed and slept in until about 11:15AM. I needed the rest.

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.

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.

I hope you enjoy it!
T

... einzumischen. Jedoch wurden die Touren nur mit Fuetterung angeboten und es bietet sich uns ein sehr aufregendes und beeindruckendes Schauspiel. Offensichtlich scheinen die Haie das Spiel schon zu kennen, fressen ruhig ihre Fische auf und gehen dann wieder auf Distanz, bevor wir uns von der Leine loesen und frei herumschnorcheln. Generell darf man hier in Franzoesisch Polynesien kein zu aengstliches Verhaeltnis zu Haien haben wenn man ins Wasser moechte, denn ...

... to take us what we knew was about 2.5 miles for an extortionate number of francs so we politely declined and walked out of the airport backpack clad to the main road and hitched ourselves to the hotel, it's the island way apparently. The chap who took us was brilliant, he loaded in all our bags and gave us a brief intro to the island before taking us to the door of our hotel: the Moorea Pearl Beach and Spa - what a great guy and rightly or wrongly ...

... stop at Bloody Mary's along the way (a well known hang out). As our excursion was early this morning we wanted to spend the rest of the day on our own. We hired a taxi to take us to a local resort (Sofitel) for the remainder of the day. The resort was breath taking... an infinite pool going into the blue ocean surrounded by huts on stilts over water, and white sand beaches. Always some give and take: with all of this pleasure, two pineapple margaritas ...

... our course! We made it around the island in about an hour and we were pretty happy to haul that canoe back onto the beach. That was not a very successful endeavour. I then grabbed my snorkelling gear and swam around the reefs for more than an hour. The corals weren't too spectacular (guess I'm spoiled after seeing those mind-blowing reefs in Malaysia and Australia) but there were large numbers of multi-coloured fish such as the emperor angelfin, triggerfish ...

... where we had seen the Lemon Sharks the other day. All quiet, there were dozens of Barracuda around and then coming up the slope was a 2metre Lemon Shark, then another, then another. It looked just like a world war 2 movie, where three destroyers sleekly follow each other in line astern. It was a fabulous sight. These guys passed at a distance and we continued our circular route over the reef. There was another group of divers away to our right and as we came to a gulley, the three ...