Today was our last full day at Hotel Bora Bora. Originally, we thought we might do a private three-hour boat cruise today, but because the dawned kind of overcast, we rethought our plans. We’re on island time, that’s for sure. You just go with the flow.
Over breakfast, we decided that we’d go into Vaitape on the free shuttle offered by the hotel. The town is quite small and you can see the whole thing in about 10 minutes if you walk quickly. We did a little shopping for souvenirs and then caught the bus back to the hotel.
For the rest of the day, we chilled out at our bungalow. We went snorkeling a couple of times and were completely entertained by the sea life. We saw a pretty big sea turtle munching on some coral by the boat dock and also found our humongous moray eel friend, too. He is one big dude.
Our sunset tonight was wonderful. Wade snapped photos from our deck while Andrea wrote in her journal. We then headed over to the weekly Manager’s Party at the Pofai Beach Bar for some cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
Following the cocktail party, we headed to dinner at the hotel restaurant. Wade had filet mignon with sweet potatoes and taro while Andrea had pasta with coconut cream sauce and scallops. Both were excellent. Matira the cat showed up looking for some tidbits and seemed to quite like the scallops and the steak. This is one discerning little cat!
After dinner we headed over to the boat dock to see if the manta rays would show up, but they did not. We’re kind of bummed that we never got to see them during our stay. I guess this means that’ll we just have to come back next year.
As we were walking up our dock to our bungalow, we saw something in the water. It was an eagle ray that had come into the shallows looking for supper. He looked like a gray ghost just skimming along the bottom. Every once in a while he’d pause over one of the shallow coral heads and grab a snack. Very cool.
We ended the day by looking through the more than 500 pictures Wade had taken today. That is not a typo. That means over a 12-hour period, he’s almost taking a picture every minute. It makes the guys pushing the button on Lost look almost sane, don’t you think?
Tomorrow we head to the St. Regis. Keep tuned to this channel.
Editor's Note: Our internet connection is quite slow, so pictures will be posted shortly.
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