Swimming with Sting Rays and on to Bora Bora…

Well, the Polynesian show was wonderful! The highlight was a little girl, spitting image of Molly that stole the show. She followed all of the ladies moves and was so cute in her shell skirt with no top, hair  black as ebony, curly and barefoot. I loved her and took every picture I could. The food was horrible, I never even had a plate, but the wine was good and the band too! We left early because we had a full day of excursion the next day, early. 

Although we are 5 hours behind, we still haven't caught up. We started the trip waking at at 4 and we are now up to 6:30. Perfect for sunrise, which has proved all week to be better than sunset until tonight, but I digress. 

We woke up early the next morning to go on our snorkel, sting ray, shark safari. Sounds cool right? Until you realize the sharks that have been circling looking for something to eat at the crepe bar at night must go somewhere during the day and that's where we are headed! We  were picked up at our hotel with a lot of other people and soon were headed out on our tour . The boat part was very nice, we are boat/water people so no complaints. Our guide, Siki, with his Rastafarian look made David sure that we would be offered weed by the end of the tour. No such luck, he was just a really nice, funny guy that love to put his tongue on the sting rays and get right in there with the sharks! It was amazing to actually swim with the sting rays and back tipped sharks. And no, it was not lost on me in the least that some will never, ever do this. 

Throughout my vacation I am humbled beyond words to have this opportunity. Our guide was telling us that these islands are so poor, many Tahitian children have never been on a boat until they go to sailing school, which is subsidized by the government. I literally cried that they live here and don't experience this majesty. But more than that, that there is no opportunity in such a beautiful place, where clearly someone is making A LOT of money.

Anyway, we had so much fun on our bar-b-que on the beach, we decided to order room service on our last night in Moorea. Took showers, ordered burgers and watched the sun go down. Yes, heaven or so we thought...

Tomorrow, Bora Bora

We woke up at 6 ready to pack, go to breakfast and head to our final destination, Bora Bora. 

Breakfast was unassuming and we took a few last pictures of our bungalow and from our breakfast spot, but inside I was dying to go to the place that we had been talking about... Bora Bora.

We got our transfer to the horrific little Moore airport, think open air with no a/c and with stray cats.

Waited for one hour. We had a 45 min flight to Bora Bora and when we landed on the very TINY landing strip, we had seen it from the sky any couldn't wait.  

Turned out the boat from the Four Seasons was picking up just us! We were ecstatic! A private boat transfer for just us! This was the first thing that went very right. As any one knows about the Four Seasons it just got better upon arrival. To be continued….