Sailing the Pacific

29 June 2024 | Huahine Island
22 June 2024 | Moorea
21 June 2024 | Moorea, Cook Bay
09 June 2024 | Fakarava South Pass
05 June 2024 | Tahanea Atoll
28 May 2024 | Makemo Atoll, East
23 May 2024 | Makemo Atoll
17 May 2024 | Controllers Bay, Nuku,Hiva
08 May 2024 | Anaho Bay
29 April 2024 | Taiohae Bay
21 April 2024 | Controllers Bay, Nuku,Hiva
15 April 2024 | Tahuata Island, Hanatefau Bay
09 April 2024 | Hiva Oa, Atuona Bay
08 April 2024 | 100 miles Northeast of Hiva Oa
07 April 2024 | 235 NM ENE of Hiva Oa
06 April 2024 | 380 miles Northeast of Hiva Oa
05 April 2024 | South Pacific
04 April 2024 | South Pacific
03 April 2024 | South Pacific

Tahiti and Moorea

21 June 2024 | Moorea, Cook Bay
Kirk Groehnert | Sunny and Beautiful
Well, it's been a little while since the last blog but that is because Tahiti wasn't anything special. I mean it was nice, well developed, and parts were certainly beautiful, but the main thing for us was a taste of a city life again. After sitting in traffic, in our rented car, for three hours to get from Papeete (the city) and back to our boat, we had enough.

We explored, visited MacDonald's, shopped at Carrefour (fantastic selection of groceries), and of course some gift shops and boat stores. Papeete is just a city with no special architecture but just about everything one desires. We did have a nice beach side beer and a decent meal at a restaurant. We got that out of our system. We are good to go now.

We did the short trip over to Moorea and this is what we pictured in our minds as French Polynesia - Just beautiful everywhere we turn. And think whatever you want, but we enjoy the more touristy, upmarket stores.

In the other islands (except Tahiti), there was this feeling that people didn't really care about making money. For example, when ordering food at a place (there are no restaurants per say), it was either take what they have, or order from a limited menu with a sorry, we are out of that.

Here, in Moorea, there is competition and drive for service and quality. Most people speak at least some English too...bonus.

Today, our first full day here, we took our electric scooters out so we could cover a lot of ground. It was a lot of fun to use our scooters to see Moorea. These things can go up to 20mph and 40 miles on charge so we went all over.


We had a nice lunch, went up into the interior a little and then back down and over to the Hilton Resort where we made reservations for tomorrow - dinner buffet and Polynesian dance show. It will also be our anniversary dinner.

I can tell Moorea has enough to do here for a while. Unfortunately our visa's are expiring on July 10 so we will need to move on.




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Vessel Name: Crystal Seas
Vessel Make/Model: Taswell 43
Hailing Port: Lewes, DE
Crew: Kirk and Crystal
About:
We met in 2014 and have a common love of exploring the world. Both of us have traveled quite a lot but vacations don't really give the opportunity to get to know a place and the people. That's why we thought it would be better to sell everything and live on a boat! And that's what we did... [...]
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We live this lifestyle not because we are adrenaline junkies wanting to climb mountains or some other extreme activities. Surely there are people like that in this sport and we have nothing against that. It's just not us and it's not what motivates us to deal with the compromises, uncomfortable [...]
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