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| Arriving in Moorea by Ferry |
So today is our second chance at November 17th, 2011! And we get to spend it, and several more days, on Moorea!
Once we got to the ferry terminal yesterday (or was that today), it was a 20 minute trip until we reached our island home. The arrival was beautiful, this cute little harbor nestled beneath these towering lush peaks.
Joanie then worked her magic and we ended up getting a free shuttle bus ride to our hotel. And the bus driver was really cool – he actually drove us past our resort a bit to an overlook to take pictures of our over-water bungalows. It was a great way to arrive at this incredible destination.
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| My Tahitian Queen |
We then checked into our piece of paradise and hung out for a while on our own private deck, over the water, with our mouths jaws dropped. The scene was a beautiful as they get! We then walked down our private stairs (from our private deck) directly into the lagoon for a swim and snorkel. And the great news here is that the snorkeling was great! We saw a ton of different kinds of fish and even a very large moray eel. Really don’t even need to go looking for other snorkeling spots – but we definitely plan on exploring the island.
In fact the next thing we did was made arrangements to rent a car for tomorrow – just for 8 hours – to drive around the island and see what we can see.
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| Our Tahitian Dream Home - 3rd along the front pier, from the Beach |
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| Our View looking towards the Beach and inner Lagoon |
We then went to dinner at their outdoor restaurant, and it was very good, and fun. (Actually, before dinner we enjoyed a glass of the Syrah we purchased at Villa Maria on our deck!) Anyway, we split everything at dinner – a Cesar salad with chicken, an entrée of chicken stuff with spinach and bacon in a rosemary gravy and another entrée of vegetable & feta fettuccine. During dinner, a very light rain began to fall, but all the diners just opened up our beach umbrellas and continued. As dinner was winding down, the resort put on a Tahitian show, that was really entertaining – with musicians and dancers. Much better than the show we saw in Rotorua.
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| Sun down from the infinity edge pool, on our way to dinner. |
It was time to take a very happy and satisfied walk through the garden and down our pier to our bungalow. Life just doesn’t get any better than this! This is definitely a dream come true for us – and we realize how lucky we are.
