We so happy to be hanging out with our friends Karen and Jim on 'Sockdolager'. They sailed here from Mexico (originally from Washington State). Their boat is a 24' Dana Pacific Seacraft. Compare that to that big yacht behind them. Whoa, a completely different experience.
|
Comments [0]
Here's me and Don just finishing up with a great snorkel out by the outer reef. I saw a couple of pipefish this time which I've never seen before. Tiny little seahorse heads with long skinny bodies. Very weird. The water was only about 7 feet deep, easy to just float along the surface and see lots of smaller fish and creatures directly below.
|
We and Sockdolager took our dinghies out to the edge of the outer reef. It's really calm weather right now but even so the waves just crash onto the reef and some our quite big. Kind of scary being out so close to them.
|
Here's Bob and Anne on 'Charisma'. We had a dinghy raft-up for sunset and cocktails with them and a few others. A wonderful evening filled with great views, laughter and fun.
|
Buena Vista is one happy yacht. The crew is pretty happy too. The weather turned fine so we moved from the yacht club mooring out to the lagoon. The color of the water in the Bora Bora lagoon is just incredible. Those are probably $1,000 per night villas in the background. We snorkeled by the boat in 20 feet of water. There was a few low lying corals beneath the boat. I dove down and came face to face with a huge moray eel. I thought it was a sea cucumber at first...glad I didn't try to poke it.
|
We're loving this calm weather. Wish you were here.
|
We're so excited to be at the island of Bora Bora, our last stop in French Polynesia. We're on a mooring ball in front of the Bora Bora Yacht Club. The weather hasn't been so great, not terrible but we are expecting some fine clear weather in a few days. Bora Bora was hit by a cyclone a few years ago and the yacht club was pretty much destroyed. They have since rebuilt and are currently collecting burgees (the little flags that boats fly) from this year's cruising fleet to redecorate the restaurant and lounge area. Buena Vista contributed a burgee and in return we received a lovely black Bora Bora Yacht Club burgee as a souvenier. Very cool. We've been really happy to be spending lots of time with Karen and Jim on Sockdolager before they head to the southwest and we head northwest, hopefully to meet up again in Tonga in September.
|
Yeah we're really here.
|
