Huahine

A little shell with a hermit crab inside that are tour guide Jean Pierre found on the bottom of the water for us

 I had a snorkel tour booked for today with the ship. Our tour started at 9 AM and we went directly to the snorkeling location.

OMG, this was the best snorkeling of the trip. Unfortunately, I left my underwater camera on the ship! However, I hope this will not be a problem next week when I go on the tour  again.

Yes, people I am staying on the ship for another week!!!!!! The ship made me an offer I could not refuse. Another full week on the ship, all inclusive, with free laundry, cost me less than 1/4 of what I paid originally.

How could I not except the offer? I was able to change all my flights and although I will be missing Christmas with my family, I plan on visiting them early in 2022.

I didn’t make the decision easily, but I thought I would never get this opportunity to cruise on this magnificent ship again at this very cheap price. I had to sacrifice my seat on the return home from Tahiti to a standard coach seat which I am not looking forward to but it was a small price to pay for the benefit of staying aboard for another week.

I haven’t made any plans yet for what I’m going to do while aboard next week. The only thing I am certain of is that I want to do the same tour in Huahine again.

I’ve contacted my family and friends in Pennsylvania and explain the situation to them and everyone seems OK with that.

Here are some pictures from today, I hope you enjoyed them

Dinner:  the Best shrimp cocktail ever, Parmesan truffle fries, poached lobster, Sandeman port for dessert!.

Art work on the ship: 

Bora-Bora -day 2

​Yes, we overnighted here and Bora-Bora anchored in the beautiful lagoon. The nice rocking of the ship made for good sleeping.

I woke up fairly early this morning and had some coffee and then I went up to my favorite little café in the front of the ship and had some more coffee and a few of the tiny sandwiches that they serve there.

I went back to the cabin to collect my stuff for the day as I was going to go over to the little town where we tender. I needed to hit up an ATM. And also do a little shopping.

It was brutally hot today despite having Guzzled Two bottles of water, I was still parched. I made my way to a little café on the main road and sat down in the shade and had a nice cold drink.

I was glad I came ashore as I was able to find a couple of more gifts that I needed.   Thoroughly hot and sweaty I made my way back to the tender and then back to the ship.

We were supposed to have some huge dinner party on the Motu here at Bora-Bora, complete with traditional fire dancers, however the rain ruined our plans. They ended up hauling all the stuff back over to the ship and we were served instead in the buffet area. The food again was really good—- much much variety and the best thing rice pudding with coconut milk oh my God!!!!

 Nothing much new to report today no beautiful pictures or anything. But I did have to spend time getting some new arrangements made and I’ll tell you about that in a future post—— stay tuned!!!!!

Random pictures:

Water sport platform from deck 7

This is the shower at the pool!

The water sport platform is open today!!!! (From deck 7) 

We are currently sailing toward Huahine for our final port before return to Papeete!  I love going to sleep when the ship is sailing. I do some of my best sleeping then!

jilly

Bora-Bora - day 1

My excursion today wasn’t until 1 PM I decided to do the rays and snorkeling and the sharks. I slept in a little late again and made my way up to get something to eat at this beautiful café I told you about yesterday. It’s at the front of the ship and I had my coffee and little baby sandwiches and then I had cookies and milk LOL.

Before long it was time to make my way down to the tender and tender into the port to pick up the boat that would take us on the snorkel and sharks and rays trip.

There were about 10 of us on board with a crew of three and the crew was great. Music is such a big part of their life here in this part of the world every tour I’ve been on we’ve been serenaded with beautiful music.

The pictures are going to speak for themselves but I’m not sure I’ll be able to post them until I’m back home.

But I did get some good pictures with my camera so I’ll post those now. It just felt so amazing to get back in that water and snorkel with all the fish and see all the beautiful healthy coral!

The rain never touched us!!!

We were in the water for maybe 30 minutes at the first stop where the sharks and rays were. But honestly I felt like it was a better shark Ray experience in Moorea. But then we made our way out towards the reef and the coral was beautiful tons of fish swimming all around us. I was in that water for an hour and it felt like five minutes.  so beautiful

Just look at that coral waiting for us!!!!!

The water was 6-7 feet deep. The current was not bad at all. I wore a life jacket but kept it deflated.  

This is one of my favorite pictures!!!

The Conrad Hilton!

I’ve never seen a rainbow like that up against the mountains!

Good night from   Bora-Bora!!!!!

Well, actually not quite good night lol. I had to have my dinner I forgot to tell you about and then the entertainment.

After getting back to the ship, I needed to get ready for my dinner this evening. I was having dinner at the candles restaurant which is sort of like their specialty restaurant but you don’t have to pay extra for it. I ordered an 8 ounce filet mignon and yes people I did eat the whole thing I did not have any potatoes but I did have an appetizer of shiitake mushrooms which complemented the steak. They also had three different kinds of seasoning salt one was like up had a little baby taste the other two were sea salt and I can’t remember but I tried all of them and they were they were quite good interesting addition to the steak and mushrooms . I don’t think I have a lot of food porn because it was so good I forgot to take pictures.

I met a solo traveler at dinner the other night and invited him to join me at candles. So it was nice to have someone to chat with over dinner. Then, we went up to the compass rose for the music. They have two really good bands here amazing voices just just wonderful entertainment. We listened to the music and had cocktails and this girl apparently had enough drinks that dancing became an option. I’m pretty sure I’m glad that no pictures are available of that Ha!

I got back to my cabin and it was quite late and this person was tired.  I have not been up past ten !   The excursions and the heat and humidity really take a toll on you.  

A Day Off!

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I woke up this morning unfortunately feeling a bit queasy again. I took my medication and went back to sleep for a little bit. The snorkeling excursion I was supposed to take- we were warned that the current was very very fast and honestly my body said no! LOL And I did do this tour previously. 

So, I decided to make do with a day on the ship there were so many places I had Not seen before. Unfortunately or fortunately this cruise is very port intensive and we had no Sea days.  

There are so many places to eat here and I still haven’t visited them all.

I did dine this evening at the Amphora restaurant which is the main restaurant. I had asked to be seated with others and so I was. It was a lovely little table for four and we had really nice discussions and conversations over dinner. I had the Seabass and then because I wanted to try lamb and I’ve never eaten it before, the waiter brought me a plate of lamb to share with a table. I forgot to take pictures of the entrée but I had a wonderful starter and soup, great wine that they paired with my sea bream.  BTW, I actually enjoyed the lamb it was so good and it didn’t taste gamy it was perfectly cooked and I think I’ll order it again sometime!

Sweet potato and peanut soup!

Goat cheese tart!

I also discovered this place in the most forward area of the ship. It’s behind the star grill but it’s a beautiful room with a barista in there.  There’s a computer area, a couple of televisions, lots of tables and lots of windows all around.   They serve light snacks for breakfast and lunch and it’s just a beautiful setting.  

I visited the ships shops and looked around for a few things. I did find something cute that I bought for a special someone lol but it’s very very high-end- you know purses $250 each.  There’s a very cute rash guard in there that I really want and since I had a ton of onboard credit I’m gonna buy it for myself. I deserve it!!