Blogs from French Polynesia, Oceania - page 30

We spent most of the morning using Skype to call our families, then spent some time lying on our sun loungers on the beach. I kept trying to take in the view and make the most of it as we haven’t got long left here. Around lunchtime we headed to the pool to cool off and had some lunch. To walk off some of the food we headed down the jetty to watch the fish, and found a ladder at the bottom. We climbed down expecting it to be deeper water, but it only came up to just above ankle level. The dark blue channel dug out of the mud for the boats was visible so Matt jumped into it, but again it wasn’t as deep as expected and only came up to his waist. We ... read more

Today I actually managed to drag Matt down for breakfast as I thought we should see what it was like. He decided to just have a coffee as he couldn’t face any food. Breakfast consisted of a basket of bread, jams, cheese, ham, yoghurts, fruit juice and a plate of fresh tropical fruit. It was really tasty but should have been as it cost over £13! After eating for what felt like at least an hour, I suggested that we take the kayaks out to work off some of the food. This time we decided to use the single canoes rather than the double as yesterday it had been hard work. We turned left from the beach. The water was lovely and calm. It was much easier using the single canoes and we felt that we ... read more

We ate one of our baguettes for breakfast (saving us £26 as that‘s how much the breakfast of bread, jam, cheese and coffee costs here for two!) and I headed down to the beach to read some of the magazines I'd grabbed from the rack at the bar. It was strange reading about what was going on in the real world as we’ve felt removed from it for the past few weeks. Around 9.30am we Skpyed Matt’s parents and had a good long chat with them. It’s great having a web cam and being able to see each other while you speak. The rest of the morning was spent on the beach. After a few hours there we went to sit on the jetty to look out across the lagoon watching the colours change as clouds ... read more

I can’t believe that it’s September already! Today we got up early (for us) at 7am because we wanted to go to the shop for some croissants and baguettes before we went to the spa - plus if you get there any later than 8am they’ve mostly sold out of everything. We went outside our bungalow and heard a meow and the little ginger cat who we’d stroked a few times appeared, looking really pleased to see us. We stroked him for a bit before Matt realised that he had something in his mouth. It was a big fish hook and one end was sticking right out past his whiskers, meaning the other end was somewhere stuck in the roof of his mouth. Matt tried to hold him so that we could get a better look ... read more

Our lagoon tour started at 9.30am and the small motorised outrigger canoe picked us up from the little beach by our bungalow. We picked up about eight more people from the hotel a bit further along the beach before heading out to the Coral Garden. On the way there the lady running the tour (we‘ll call her Helena because we can‘t quite remember her actual name) and the guy sailing the boat sang to us in Tahitian as she played her guitar. The ‘Coral Garden’ seems to be the focus of most of the trips and our outrigger joined another couple of bigger boats there. We were far out in the deeper part of the lagoon and it was choppy. Only half of our group decided to jump in to snorkel with the fish. Helena dropped ... read more