We arrived in Bora Bora just after lunch. We took the ships tender to shore and met up with the tour we had arranged through Oceanic. We should have read the tour description again as the first part of the tour was a glass bottom boat ride out to a reef to go snorkeling with the sharks and rays. Unfortunately, we did not wear our bathing suits so we stayed on the boat with another couple and pointed out to the others when a ray or shark was near them. One lady was very jumpy about the rays and black fin sharks when they came near her. Our guide, Dali, I think was feeding them to get them to come over. It was very hot and humid. So even though we did not get in the water, we were still wet from our own sweat. In the distance, we could see the tiki huts over the water that Bora Bora is famous for. The second half of the tour he drove us past the tiki huts and over to a coral reef and we could look through the bottom of the boat to see the fish and corals. While motoring back into shore, Dali, said something about Bloody Mary’s and construction but we could not hear well over the engine. After getting back to dry land, David asked Dali about how to get to Bloody Mary’s, which some friends had suggest we visit, and found we either had to rent a car or catch a taxi. We tried to walk around the area near the pier, but all the shops were closed at 5PM and there were no restaurants or bars that we could find near the pier. After going back to the ship in the sweltering tender, we researched the area over drinks and saw that Bloody Mary’s was closed due to construction of a new hotel and renovations to the bar/café. So Bloody Mary’s is out for this trip. There are very few restaurants outside of the resorts, and none near the pier.
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| Tiki Huts over the water |
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| Black Tip Shark swimming with the snorkelers |
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| Manta Ray through the glass bottom |
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