Pension Mauarii Huahine

... 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>

... 8217;t worry about returning here. One interesting note however. After we sailed about 5 pm, the captain told us that a tsunami warning had been issued for French Polynesia at 6:40 pm. Sure enough at 6:30 the water in the pool began to slosh from side to side. Apparently it was ok on Raiatea, but we can now claim to have survived a tsunami! Onward to Bora Bora.

Raiatea ist nur einen sehr kurzen Flug von Maupiti entfernt, aber die beiden Inseln sind sehr verschieden. Auch Raiatea hat ein vorgelagertes Riff und ein paar kleine Motu, ist aber viel groesser als Maupiti und wesentlich &#8222;einheimischer". Hier lebt man nur zum Teil vom Tourismus, aber auch von Ackerbau, Viehzucht und Perlenzucht. Wir haben nur einen kleinen Stopp auf dieser Insel in den Reiseplan quetschen koennen, denn nicht alle Strecken werden jeden Tag ...

... over Tahaa. <br><br>We left the boat at the anchorage next day and hired a car to travel round the islands (Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti). The car hire agent was very interesting (a french ex-pat), who described the island as a "golden prison" due to it's beauty but the high costs of travelling off the island to go anywhere else. In the car ...

... and anger (it was raining) and I pushed the bike back for half a km and left it at the airport and just walked the remainder 2km on the beach (telling te guys of the hotel to go and pick up their f*cking bike were I had left it). Had lunch at the hotel (raw fish but this time a mix between polynesian and asian style - with a slightly sweat soja sauce as accompagnement) headed off to the airport and waited at the bar for the plane which was half and hour ...

... we were given a brief description of pearl cultivation. Sounds like the search for an oyster with a "lip" of the right color, then seed other oysters with both the lip and the nucleus (always from Mississippi River shell). Sometimes an oyster expels the pearl; if it doesn't, you can have a pearl in 18 months to 7 years. From the pearl farm, we headed across the bay to a motu with sharks and rays in tanks. We declined to land; having swum with sharks and rays ...

... nous que l'inverse. Il se contentera tout de même de la vision d'une raie qui d'après ses dire, « vole comme un ange ».Dans l'après-midi, le temps est venu pour nous de rentrer à Tahiti. On laisse tout le monde derrière nous, et les adieux sont quand même difficiles, car en quelques jours des liens forts se sont déjà tissés avec tous nos amis tahitiens. On commence à se dire qu'il faudra quand même bien qu'on revienne là un jour !

... done this before while snorkling in palau tioman, so i consider myself experienced. first of all you want to be in a position with your butt facing up at least 45deg angle. so snorkling position will be ideal. you don't want to be in a sitting position because in zero g environment such as the prestine waters of the outer reef of huahine the stuff that comes out can either go up or down, depending on their density and resulting specific gravity relative to sea ...

... mahi mahi in a restaurant by the pier. vanilla cream sauce seems to match well with most seafood and most restaurants on the island has at least a dish using that as the sauce. i saw a shark feeding expedition flyer at the restaurant and found out they do tours everyday. and the tour today is 30 min from now. sign me up! the shark feeding tour people actually came to the restaurant to pick me up. so basically they take you out near the outer reef in a "stage" area. there ...

... Anarchy prevails). The Pass was successfully negotiated around 8:05 am. Seas were slightly choppy, but the swells were low. Watches were set of one hour duration, changing on the half-hour. The order was: Ardice, Paul, Arlene, Tom, Kevin, Don. Repeat. Rain hit during Paul's trick. Short of duration and very warm. Skies cleared during Arlene's turn. Water became a deep, gorgeous, sapphire blue. Ardice became ...