Day 21 - February 4, 2007, Sunday, Papeete, Tahiti Time: 7:15 am (11:15 am CST) Latitude: 17 degrees 32.17 minutes S Longitude: 149 degrees 34.16 minutes W Speed: Docked Winds: Moderate Distance traveled from FLL: 7398 nautical miles Weather: Partly Cloudy/Sunny, 84 degrees Ok, Papeete, Tahiti was pretty spectacular to wake up to as well! Maybe not quite as spectacular as Bora Bora though. Papeete is definitely a city. The name, Papeete translated means “water from a basket”. Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia, located on the island of Tahiti, and is a center of government, commercial, industrial and financial services in French Polynesia. We chose a circle island tour here because we wanted to see some of the landscape of French Polynesia. As we circled the island in 4.5 hours we saw so much—beautiful
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