Blogs from French Polynesia, Oceania - page 32

Our room doesn’t have very thick walls so I was woken at 6.30am as people started going for breakfast. I managed to doze off but every now and again I’d be woken by someone else opening their sliding door. By 8am the cleaners were into the rooms vacuuming. Although breakfast wasn’t included in the rooms, it seemed that everyone at the resort was heading to the bar. When the cleaner had finally made it to the room next door at 8.30 I thought it was time we got up. I dragged Matt out as we’d decided the night before to walk to the shops to see just how far away they were. The lady on reception had said they were ten minutes away but we had stopped believing people as so many times we’d been told ... read more

Geo: -16.4993, -151.74... read more

The passage to the Tuamatu’s was fairly uneventful. Once again, we ran out of wind after the first day and had to motor for the remaining three. If we had of left two days earlier, we would have had too much wind…seems to be a reoccurring theme. The Tuamatu’s are a group of 78 coral atolls that generally enclose a lagoon. The pass into the atolls are to be navigated with care as they are relatively narrow and have strong currents running depending on the time (high and low tide). Best time to attempt the passes is during slack water, though we never quiet sure when this was, so we went with the flow…literally. The first atoll that we visited was Kauehi. Once we successfully navigated the pass, we motored for 8nm until we reached the ... read more

Geo: -17.52, -149.56Iaorana (notese la A) es tahitiano , casi lo mismo que el rapa nui en todo caso.. (de repente encuentro gente que es muy parecida a otra de la isla se nota que de por aca era hotu matu'a Ya llevo unas semanas aqui en tahiti y es bien diferente a la isla en realidad... ahora harto calor unos 30 grados y aparte de los precios todo bien ..la otra ves compre una sprite chica 500 ml me salio unos 1700 pesos asi que ahora estoy a pura agua la cual de todas maneras es casi igual de cara.. aquí he comido menos no me da tanta hambre quizas porque uno toma harto liquido ademas que con los precios se me quita el hambre las roulottes abren solo después de las 5 asi que ... read more

Close your eyes and imagine for three weeks you and one other (recommend that it is someone you get along with rather than someone you fantasise about), are confined to your lounge room, kitchen and bathroom, now divide that space into one third. With the exception of email, you have no contact with the outside world, no television, no newspapers and no internet. You are only able to prepare meals with food that you currently have available to you and the alcohol has been confiscated. By the way you are unable to use the microwave, bread maker, freezer, food processor or toaster. To top it off, at any one time, one of you has to be awake. Having fun yet???? Well strangely enough, we are. I think that we have both gone a bit crazy (some ... read more