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