Oct 1, 09:45 PM by Steve | Day 7: Bora Bora
Posted in Honeymoon & Vacation
Today started with leaving Raiatea and Tahaa, bound for Bora Bora. The ship left pretty early in the morning and neither of were up to see us go around Tahaa and exit the lagoon for the open seas. From the GPS, Bora Bora appears to be pretty close, but the ship took a rather circuitous route and we got there around noon. In the meantime, we attended the final art auction and ended up buying two more pieces, and winning one more print. The ones we bought were ‘Summer Brunch 1’ by Nobu Haihara, and ‘Sea of Galileh’ by Sami Zilkha. The print that we won is by Dina Appel, and is from the same set as another that we got.
After the auction, we arrived at Bora Bora and ancored in the lagoon. We took a tender to the dock and caught our tour, ‘Highlights of Bora Bora’ There were a lot of people on this tour, it took several tenders of about 100 people each to get us all out to the dock. We all piled in to waiting ‘Le Trucks’ and were taken around the entire island, similar to Rarotonga. Also like that tour there weren’t any young people on our bus, but at least there were some on other buses of the same tour. We stopped several times for photo opportunities, and a few times to buy stuff. The final stop was ‘Bloody Mary’s’, which was packed and hot and stuffy and everyone was smoking and we found it to be a generally unpleasant experience. The island was beautiful and there were lots of resorts with overwater bungalows. We will have to come back sometime and just hang out here…
After the tour we got back to town but most things were closed. We got back to the ship and played Trivial Pursuit for a while until dinnertime, then dipped in the hot tub. Today Steve also collected the last of the four souvenir colored ‘shot ball’ glasses, and got the last stamp on his ‘bar hop’ card. Tomorrow we have two water tours, first the ‘Ray Ballet & Snorkel Safari’, then an introductory SCUBA trip. Also we found out that there is a new load of art coming onto the ship and there will be one more auction, just for them, but it will be while we are coming back from SCUBA and we probably won’t be able to make it. Of course we bought plenty already and we shouldn’t tempt ourselves with more, but its still fun to watch; we will probably show up dripping wet, right off the boat.
silly, but fun— Uncle Steve at Oct 2, 05:39 PM