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Business meeting, French Polynesia style!

Board Room – French Polynesia style!

 

August 15 – 28, 2012

The main town on Bora Bora is Vaitape. It’s about a 15-minute walk down a rather busy street. We’d brave the walk to get to town, but we would almost always take a cab or get a ride to go back.

The town is not particularly attractive, but it does have a couple of decent-sized markets. A few minutes north of town is the other yacht club, the Mai Kai. Attached to this is a nice restaurant with what was rumored to be a great happy hour. We never made it down for the happy hour, but we did enjoy a couple of decent cappuccinos there.

We did have a favorite eatery in town: the St. James. The food was wonderful . . . a splurge . . . but wonderful. I would say it was our favorite restaurant in all of French Polynesia.

-Cyndi

August 18, 2012

Can you believe we’re at the Bora Bora Yacht Club?  Talk about a dream-come-true!

We arrived on Wednesday and it’s Saturday now.  Sorry it’s taken so long to get around to posting but we’ve been overwhelmed with activities.  We’ve shopped, visited, toured, and taken an incredible bike ride all around the island.  There’s also been a fair bit of just sitting in the cockpit and admiring the scenery.

We’re on a mooring and this is what the bay looks like.  Not bad, eh?

August 16, 2012

After our stop at Matira Beach, we stopped for lunch and had (what else?) poisson cru and (of course) pizza, which means (yet again) another picture of poisson cru for the blog. Lunch was good, and we were joined by numerous cats, dogs and chickens.

After lunch, we finished our ride, seeing more swaying palm trees, green mountains, and water in every shade of blue. -Cyndi