Board Room – French Polynesia style!
Author: richwest3
Vaitape, Bora Bora (Society Islands)
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
Bora Bora Yacht Club (Bora Bora, Society Islands)
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?
Bora Bora Bike Ride: The West Side (Bora Bora, Society Islands)
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
Bora Bora Bike Ride: Matira Beach, Bora Bora (Society Islands)
August 16, 2012
As we continued our bike ride around the south end of the island, we passed Matira Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches on the island. White sand beaches are relatively rare in the Society Islands (and for that matter in all of French Polynesia), but Bora Bora has a few. This particular beach was beautiful, with soft white sand and shallow water all the way to the reef, which gave it a gorgeous bright aqua and green hue. -Cyndi
