3/5/2015 0 Comments Bora Bora. Island of Legends.Its now a week since we left Papeete, during that time there we had everything fixed that we could & mostly it turned out to be not as dramatic as first anticipated, a bolt here or there had sheered, so not the whole gear box, the fridge was repaired in a make do fashion & various other issues solved. Svend & I hired a car for 2 days & drove around Tahiti, spending a night at a small guest house near to the worlds biggest waves at Teaachupao. Amazing but still very primitive village despite its world fame.
Another day we took a ferry to Moorea & hired a scooter & spent the day driving around the small island snorkeling & enjoying life. We set sail for the Bora Bora region & spent a full day motoring after the main sail rope came out of the mast which I believe wasn’t a good moment as it meant that someone would have to climb to the top of the mast the next day to retrieve & re thread it into the mast. Raitea & Tahaa were the next Islands we visited & this time Svend & I found a local guy who took us on a boat tour to a Pearl farm, coral garden where we snorkeled, lunch of raw tuna, vanilla farm we met a Dane who had left Denmark to the French Foreign legion!!! & thereafter lived in French Polynesia with his local wife. A few cruise ships arrived whilst we were anchored spewing out 1000’s of people for the day & sailing them away into the night to their next destination, to be repeated all over again. When there are no cruise ships in town the place is deserted & most of the shops don’t even open. Strange to think we get this imagination about a place based on our first impressions which are not real. Off to Bora Bora we left but the auto pilot we had just had fixed decided not to work after a couple of hours, meaning we couldn’t sail so on went the motor again & we arrived at Bora Bora just before sunset. We had to find our way into the lagoon through an opening in the reef & try to find a place to moor that wasn’t too deep, this proved quite difficult as it was either too deep or too shallow, by this time it was pitch black so we attached ourselves to a floating mooring close to shore but still very deep & hoped for the best. Overall Bora Bora is nice but I think the other Islands which aren’t so touristy are much better, more pure. We spent the days exploring the Island & the beach which had shuttles running all day with yet another cruise ship (this time from Sydney with a few thousand aussies on board) actually I think Bernadettes brother was on the cruise & it had left the day of the terrible Sydney storms so they all had stories to tell about wine bottles being smashed & being locked into their cabins for a few hours with no food being served & 10m waves, what a great way to start a 3 week cruise.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |