Around TahitiMara’s Grottos I wake at 5:30am to a cacophony of crowing roosters.The French are rubbing off on us. We head down to the store to buy our fresh baguette for breakfast. Our host drops by with eggs freshly laid by his chickens. Jiggy the family dog hangs around hoping for scraps but we’ve been warned not to feed her.Tahiti is to French Polynesia’s Society Islands what Oahu is to …
Bora Bora to TahitiFinal Morning in Bora Bora We have visitors while eating breakfast this morning. Three chickens come clucking and poking around the yard.Desiree (our host at Lady Bora Bora) says that she will take us to Viatape at 11:30am to catch the 12:00pm Air Tahiti catamaran to Bora Bora Airport which is on a nearby motu (reef island). We leisurely pack and relax in our beautiful setting until …
Lazy Day in Bora BoraMorning at Lady Bora Bora and Viatape We wake up and have breakfast on our deck. Then just relax.We decide to check out the island’s main town, Vaitape. It is only a ten minute bike ride away. John insists on buying pareos in town. I think he may have had a fashion epiphany at the pareo wrapping demonstration yesterday. Saturday at Matira BeachAt 3:30pm Desiree drives us …
Hello Bora BoraGoodbye MooreaWe are up at 5:15am and finish our packing. We drop-off the rental car and head to the port in Moorea to catch our ferry back to Tahiti. The crossing takes 30 minutes and in that time I see a pod of dolphins and many flying fish. The flying fish are very cool, they are fish with wings that jump and literally fly across the water. …