We left beautiful Bora Bora the day before yesterday, and it was with reluctance that we left these beautiful Islands with a few tears in our eyes but also excitement to be off on another adventure to a different land. We spent the last afternoon and night at a large motu (island) still in the Bora Bora lagoon. With yet another gorgeous resort on it, the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, I would recommend this to anyone with a bit of money to spare. I would have loved to look at a brochure with the prices.

I was the lucky one to be able to roam around this beautiful resort built in the native style with thatched roofs, which blended into the tropical jungle. Over the water bungalows were serviced by the staff in those little white electric things. An exotic looking spa resort built into the side of the green craggy hills, overlooked the amazing aqua coloured water out to the reef.

This was the only resort that we visited that a security guard stopped us as we entered from the beach, having obviously seen us bring our dinghy ashore, so we could'nt have been mistaken for resort guests. He called the manager who came along in one of those little electric things. We asked her politely if we could look around the resort, fortunately I had dressed up a bit, with a new top my mother had made, a nice necklace from my friends in Fatu Hiva and my new black pearl earrings. I was allowed in, Greg was sent away to put a shirt on, when I surfaced again an hour or so later some other very nice Norwegian Yachties with two lovely children had been refused entry. I think it was because I had my black pearls on, so I looked a wee bit like a resort person.

My GPS tells me we only have 248 miles to go to Raratonga in the Cook Islands, so it will be a short 3-4 day trip this time. We've had good winds and a beam reach, so conditions are very good, except for a little sprinkling of rain just before dawn, whilst I was on watch. We left on our own this time but there are boats ahead of us, and boats behind us, that we are talking to twice a day on a radio sked.