Our final stop for this trip was to the atoll of Fakarva, an hour and a half flight out of Tahiti. Fakarava has only been accessible by plane since the mid 1990s, being nothing more than a long circular strip of coral surrounding a lagoon in the middle of the South Pacific. What brings anyone here is not over the water bungalows, white soft sand beaches, five star dining, but rather the sharks, and tons of them. So many so that in one area to dive its earned the nickname "wall of sharks." So why would any reasonable person seek this place out then? Because scuba divers love sharks and understand they really aren't the mindless man eaters Peter Benchley would have us believe. As we arrived in the grass hut that is considered the airport,
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