The Hughes Zoo

Bora Bora was our third straight in-port stop, and our last in French Polynesia. To give Will the chance of a good sleep after two hectic days, Ange and he stayed on the ship in the morning while Jeremy and I took a tender to the island. We had a short wander around and even found a crane and front end loader to watch for a while.

We headed back to the ship to meet Ange and Will for lunch, and then planned to head back to Bora Bora for a glass bottomed boat cruise at 1:45pm. There was only one small problem with that plan: the cruise was at midday. We decided to try our luck and see if they had any spaces on the 1:45 cruise. Despite the best efforts of the Princess tour organiser, the best we could manage was a round-the-island bus tour. Which, it turned out, was a whole heap of fun.

From what we could see it looked like Bora Bora would be every bit the paradise that Moorea was, although we mostly saw it from a distance. It made me particularly glad that we had hired the car  in Moorea and explored in more fully. Again, there’s the brilliant beaches, turquoise water,  mountains and great weather. It is a lot more tourist-conscious though: there’s a lot of hotels and the locals are obviously a lot more used to having thousands of people turn up for a day.

Both the boys were excellently behaved on the bus and thoroughly exhausted by the by the time it finished in the late afternoon. We  got back to the ship just in time for dinner and the boys went to bed straight afterwards. Ange and I forewent gym for the night and instead went to dinner together, followed by a martini. Very sophisticated
Photos for the day

Tags: bora bora, cruise, tahiti

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