Man
does it live up to its name... The entire outer reef around the island is
filled with crystal clear turquoise water lagoons. But in the middle of this
entire beautiful island stands two beautiful peaks. Which allow you some hiking
if you have been missing a little bit of land ;) We tied up the boat on a bouy
in front of this cute little hotel that also acts as a marina for sailors
called Hotel Marina Taina. They had an infiniti pool and free wifi for us to
use, I felt a little spoiled. There are several little motus sorounding the
main middle island. Everywhere you look you see the classic little villas on
the water where you can jump right in from your back porch. Its cool but that’s
all the people seem to build as hotels and they are everywhere. Which is kind
of ugly in my perspective but hey that’s what people dream of staying in. One
of the days my dad and I packed up a cooler with a few beers and some snacks
and decided to motor arround the entire island in our dinghy. One of our stops
was at The Meriden Hotel. They have a turtle clinc here just like the one on
Moorea, BUT they allow you to swim with the turtles!!! As long as you don’t
touch. There is a huge lagoon where they keep turtles that are being healed.
There are about 20 in there from tiny babies to big adults. It was so cool. One
even climbed on to my back and scared me real badly. I was afraid I was going
to accidently hurt it.
We
had been planning to leave Bora Bora on the Nov 1 but some how it just turned
out to be a holiday and we couldn’t check out of the country. We had moved our
boat to Vaitape the only boat harbor. A bunch of kids were hanging out on the
end of our dock and we got to talking with them. Pretty soon our boat was
overloaded with 20 kids jumping off and paddling around on our kayak and
surfboards. We all hungout the whole afternoon playing ukelele and having
soccer matches. It was really fun hanging out with people a little closer to my
age. (No offense dad) It was still difficult to really talk to them because
very little spoke much English and when 20 kids are yelling at you in french to
do things with them it gets overwhelming… But me managed and ended up staying
there for the weekend till Monday when we could check out. Monday came we got
everything done and just left immedialty. We felt like our stay was over in
Bora Bora and needed to get moving. We
were also excited to get to a place where people speak English. AITUTAKI, COOK
ISLANDS!!
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