Bora Bora – January 29

Bora Bora – January 29

We were up early enough (before 6 am) to see the island as we approached and went up on the open bow area to get some pictures as we went through the very narrow opening in the reef to enter the lagoon. What can I say except beautiful! Could there be an ugly island in the S Pacific? Probably not.

So far this is my favorite place and is on my 'come back' list. The island is almost completely encircled by reef islands forming a beautiful lagoon around the central large island. Several of the luxury resort companies have built resorts out on the outlying island with the over-water bungalows. The water is quite shallow through much of the area that we can see so it is that bright pale aqua color that glows. I would love to spend a couple weeks here exploring the waters. Jim says he thinks Moorea was prettier, but he's not as much of a water-lover as I am and I agree that the many green peaks in Moorea are beautiful.

I've decided I could probably spend a month or two in this little house:

In the after noon we spent time watching a group of boys with their kayaks going back and forth with the tenders riding their wake waves. It was fun watching them as only a couple of them could get the 'right' spot to ride all the way in and the others would paddle away and wait for the next tender to go by. There was one with a stand-up paddle board instead of kayak and he would catch the right spot almost every time and ride it all the way from the pier to the ship or back. At times there were 14 or 15 of them trying to paddle in to get the spot.

Sea day tomorrow and then Rarotonga. The weather forecast is not sounding good; it's supposed to get stormy and rainy later today and tomorrow too. So we may miss Rarotonga on this trip too. Our friend Ian from the 2009 WC, reminded me that we couldn't go there then because the seas were too bad.