One More Morning in Moorea

We’re all settled in Moorea at our overwater bungalow and ready for some relaxing times.  We’ll each do our own blog today since our days were significantly different but one thing’s for sure…we aren’t mourning that we have another morning in Moorea.

Hangin’ in Heaven – Margaret 

We woke this morning to a wet patio deck and an even wetter towel that I left outside after star gazing last night.  Oops.  Forgot that this is the “wet” season here in the South Pacific.  Luckily it was dry by lunch.  Dale had an early dive and while he was off, I spent some time catching up on world news.  I switched on the TV in our bungalow and was saddened to hear about the Costa Concordia cruise ship that hit a rock off of the coast of Italy.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the people who lost their loved ones and for the others who are still missing.

After paying for internet access in the hotel lobby, I went back to the room and started working on getting the blog updated.  It will take us a bit to catch up, but rest assured Dale will be working fast and furious over the coming days.

I was so focused on the blog updates that I almost missed my 10:30 am massage!  I made my way to the Manea Spa, which is on-site at the Pearl Resort, and after getting a quick overview, I was face down on a massage table in no time.  The masseuse did a wonderful job relaxing me (which wasn’t that hard, but I did have blogging on my mind) and afterward, I was able to take a shower and relax in a meditation area with a nice cool cup of passion tea.  I had such a good time that I ended up booking another massage for tomorrow, this time in the couples room and I’ll invite Dale to come along!

Sharks Done Three Ways – Dale 

Woke up to rain, left Margaret sleeping and went to the restaurant to work on the blog, ate breakfast and met up with the divemaster at his shop on the beach (on property).  We grabbed my equipment, jumped on the boat and we were off.  The other people who were signed up were French and he said that they never go out when it isn’t sunny.  I had no choice if I wanted to dive in Moorea as he was hauling his boat tomorrow and would be out of action for two weeks.  So, I got a private dive for the price of a group tour!

It stopped raining by the time the boat pulled away from the dock and we headed over two coves, tied up to a mooring buoy, donned our equipment and leaned back from the railing for a back-first entry.  We slowly descended to about 60 feet and started looking for big fish.  He had told me not to look down, but to look up.  Moorea isn’t famous for her reefs but for her fish…sharks, turtles and such.  Almost immediately we saw a fairly large sea turtle swimming nearby, then a white tipped shark, a black tipped shark and finally a large lemon shark.  All were quite inquisitive and very friendly.

We ascended with a five minute safety stop at 15 feet and, once back in the boat, we took a zigzag course around small marker buoys to get to a gas dock at the next lagoon over.  By now the sun was out, the water was gloriously turquoise and you could clearly see the reefs forty feet below!  He filled his gas tanks, walked down the long dock and across the street to pay and we pulled away to follow another buoy course straight out to the reef.   This dive was shallow and intended to display the diversity of smaller, colorful fish found in Moorea.  And, that’s what we found as he chummed to get the fish collecting around us as I filmed.

We were only about a mile away from the resort on that dive and so we were docked in about ten minutes and I was back at the bungalow shortly thereafter.  A quick and pleasant dive outing.  I met two Canadian couples at the pool and traded notes on using the GoPro camera which I had tried for the first time today.

We relaxed the rest of the day and I tried snorkeling under our dock.  The reef was outstanding, plenty of colorful fish…overall, pretty incredible for just going out your back “door”.   We had dinner at the restaurant on property and spent another evening sitting out on the back deck watching the brilliant stars twinkling in the sky.  All in all, a pretty full and wonderful day.  We look forward to more of that tomorrow on here on Moorea.

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  • January 16, 2012 - 2:52 pm

    Ronald Glander - Dale – From the sounds of it, the French missed a good time diving.

    Marg – it was nice of you to include Dale in your “couples room” otherwise, people might start talking!

    Be safe and continue having fun.

    RonReplyCancel

  • June 26, 2012 - 9:55 pm

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