Translate/Vertaal
dinsdag 29 november 2011
Haaien
donderdag 24 november 2011
Moorea
After a short ferry ride, we arrived at Moorea. After everybody were taking a cab or had a pick up, we decided to be more adventurous, and we took the local bus to our hotel.
It was a beautiful bus ride along the coast and after 45 minutes we arrived at the hotel.
The hotel is a garden with 30 Polynesian style bungalows, all facing the ocean. The ocean is aqua blue and you can see the rays swim before the coast. And that is where Moorea is famous for, a lagoon full of sharks and rays.
After unpacking our stuff, we went into the water for a snorkeling trip. It didn’t take a minute before Guido spotted the first reef shark. And after snorkeling for half an hour, we already spotted 3 black tip reef sharks! It was wonderful and yet scary. I know, the sharks are not interested in you and they swim away from you…but still, I have seen Jaws, and that movie scared the whole nation when it comes to sharks.
So after 45 minutes I was happy I arrived to shore safely with all my fingers and toes still attached at my body.
The lagoon trip, the change of Islands, my dad’s birthday and the amount of cocktails, made us go a sleep late that night and the next morning we woke up with clouds in our head and in the sky.
The weather was just like I felt. Cloudy, cold and rainy. As the clouds moved away in my head, the clouds became darker in the sky and the wind got stronger. And last night we had our first tropical storm. It felt like a typical Dutch November night. It was cold, the rain made music on the roof and the wind blew so hard that the curtains moved with the windows closed. As it was such a late November night, I putted my shoe in front of the door and sang a Sinterklaas song. But, there was nothing in there this morning. I think, Moorea is a bit too far for Sinterklaas.
Cheers Anna
zaterdag 19 november 2011
Paradise at the lagoon!
After some sweaty hours at the pool, we went for a afternoon snorkeling trip at the lagoon just across the road.
It was almost high tide and after we had crossed the road (it took us nearly 10 minutes) and Guido had found back his fins in the water, we set of half way to the reef drop.
First it started with dull seaweed but very quickly after that came all sorts of hard and soft coral with beautiful fish!
We were curious how it would be just before the reef drop , so we went al little bit further. And that adventure paid off! We saw a stingray, a blue-spotted eagle ray, a enormous mural eel and a sea snake (red, black, white colors) of approximately 2 meters! It was wonderful!
After playing a bit with the triggerfish we stepped out the lagoon to combat the road ones again.
It was a wonderful afternoon and this wasn’t the best site to snorkel / dive in French Polynesia / the pacific. So, I am really looking forward to explore more lagoons, reef drops, etc. !
woensdag 16 november 2011
La Plage
zaterdag 12 november 2011
Bonjour!
Today it is Friday and it is time to leave Le Meridien. It was a wonderful hotel but it was also far above our budget.
Yesterday we had rented a car to explore the island and to look for nice and good valuable places to stay. It was a wonderful day with a lovely picnic on a beautiful beach! We also found out that most of the products they sell in the supermarket are from Dutch origin and that they also sell snert and bruine bonen!
Our search for a place to stay was less successful. We only found two options that met our requirements and both were fully booked. One of the two could offer us a room from Monday on.
When we arrived back in the hotel we only had to find a hotel for the weekend. But that didn’t went so easy as expected. All the hotels we had tried to call were fully booked or didn’t exist anymore. It was like being back in Corsica (LOL) where the same thing happened to us. So, we decided that the best thing to do was to book 3 more nights at Le Meridien, even when that meant it would cut a to big amount out of our budget. But when we were at the reception they told us the same story we had heard before…they were fully booked for the weekend!! Aaahhh!! And so we heard it is a national holiday this weekend and that is why all the hotels are fully booked. I hate national holidays!!!
Thank god, there was internet and bookings.com and we finally found ourselves a room at the Sofitel for the weekend! Still, too expensive but much better than having no place to stay.
So we are going to relax at a beautiful pool this weekend, doing nothing! What a horrible weekend!
Have a nice weekend!
Cheers Anna
donderdag 10 november 2011
Ia Orana!
Our transit in LA was horrible with 3 hours waiting for immigration, customs and check in! And our flight was fully booked with honeymooners what didn’t make the flight a big success. Thank god, Guido and I were too tired to bother and slept the whole flight.
Our arrival op Tahiti was great! As EU-citizens, we didn’t had to go through immigrations and therefore we were outside in no time! Unfortunally, Guido his flight bag was torn apart but that was the only downside.
At the airport was a lovely lady who brought us to the hotel, where we took a shower and a very large cup of coffee.
After doing some shopping at the supermarket, we sat down at the pool to relax…what a wonderful life!!
Tomorrow we are going to drive around the Island (in a Twingo!) to arrange our boat to Maupiti, do some more shopping and to find good places to stay!
Cheers Anna
dinsdag 8 november 2011
Up, up and away!!
It is still funny, we still have the feeling that we are on a 3 week holiday. Maybe that will change after we touch down at Papeete!! But that will take another 30 hours or so!
Anyway, we are at Heathrow now waiting and waiting. At that gave me time to write.
I hope to write something from LA and otherwise you have to wait untill we arrived in Papeete!
Cheers Anna
dinsdag 1 november 2011
www.wai-tui.com
One more week before we leave and we are ready!!! I cannot wait! I hope you enjoy our site and blog!
Cheers Anna