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Published: September 5th 2008
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This morning Matt demanded that we buy a coffee before having our bread and jam breakfast. I reminded him that the coffee tasted terrible here - so strong that you can almost chew it - but he still wanted to go, and I was missing caffeine so we went to the bar.
The first couple of sips were satisfying, but then we had to load in the milk and sugar before we dared drink any more. By the time we’d both had a cup and a half we were practically buzzing. Sitting in the bar we had a perfect view out over the aqua water so then we just sat and watched the fish.
After that we moved to the beach to carry on chatting about our plans when we get back home. The good thing about being in a place like this is that it gives you the space to think about what you want to do. As we’ve been so busy for the past few years either planning our wedding, doing DIY, working overtime or planning this trip, it’s a nice thought that when it’s over we are free to do whatever we like (that is if
Amanda‘s psychic lady’s premonition doesn‘t come true!)
Mid morning we decided to pop into town so set off walking along the road in the baking heat. We bought a phone card to call our parents and almost melted standing in the phonebox for ten minutes, we literally had sweat running down our backs.
We also found a fish card which shows pictures of 100 different types of fish that live in the lagoons here and even though it was an extortionate £8.50 (which Matt pointed out was 8.5p per fish) we bought it as it’s been driving us mad not knowing what fish we’d seen (that's how we knew the names of the fish in the photos on yesterdays blog).
At lunchtime we popped into a local restaurant and had a fantastic steak lunch which came with a whole home baked loaf that was so hot from the oven we couldn‘t start eating it until we‘d almost finished eating our meal! That’s the good think about eating out here - you always get lots of bread which means you don’t need to have pudding!
When we got back we had a rest in our room as
walking in this heat takes it out of you. It’s a shame it’s quite so hot as there are some amazing treks to do up the mountains but we just couldn’t manage it - even walking ten minutes along the flat into town first thing in the morning is almost too much sometimes. And in the evenings the temperature stays hot until the sun goes down around 6pm and by then it‘s too dark to go anywhere.
The weather was tropical today - baking hot in the morning, followed by some brief showers, and cloudy in the afternoon with a muggy, humid temperature.
In the late afternoon we took a walk along the jetty to watch the fish. It’s amazing how many you can see without even having to get wet. We spotted an Octopus as he glided from rock to coal to sand, changing colour so that he blended in as he went. We couldn’t believe how well camouflaged he was - he was almost impossible to spot once he’d settled into a new shape and colour. At one point he went just under the jetty and actually turned the same baby blue colour that the jetty
itself was painted. Matt grabbed the underwater camera and got in to try to take a snap but he was smart and hid under a rock until he’d gone, at which point he whooshed away and was out of sight in seconds. I just managed to catch a few photos of him with our normal camera but they were blurry as the water surface was rippling.
Seeing as we’d eaten out at lunchtime today it was sandwiches in our room this evening, with some local lager and wine.
Everything closes here so early. The beach bar shuts at 7pm and the restaurant closes at 9.30pm. Apparently on Bora Bora everything closes by 9pm. It’s no wonder that everyone is up and about here by 8am which is driving Matt slowly mad. I’ve gotten used to it now though and quite like it.
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