This is our second time here in Bora Bora for two days. We decided that we wanted to go around the island and stop at Bloody Mary’s and planned to rent a scooter since it is only 23 miles around the island. We had booked the “Le Truck” tour in advance. The “Le Truck” was a Mercedes truck chassis with a homemade cabin bolted on the back. These were originally used for public transportation around the island but have been turned into tourist transport as modern buses have replaced them for the public transport system. We loaded up around 40 people in this ting and as soon as we started out, it was creaking and groaning, giving us pause that it might just fall off! The tour took us all the way around the island with stops along the way for views of the lagoon, the fancy hotels (with over water tiki huts) and remnants of WWII fortifications. Bora Bora was a major US Navy base during the war due to its central location and large deep harbor. The most important stop was when we stopped at Bloody Mary’s! They were only opening the gift shop for tours from the ships, otherwise are closed. They are rebuilding the hotel section of Bloody Mary’s which had been damaged by a 2007 hurricane. The restaurant and bar were closed for renovations as well to bring them up to new codes. We of course purchased tee shirts and Leslie get a famous bloody Mary and David a locally brewed IPA. As we boarded the “Le Truck” to go back to the pier, it started to rain. During the tour, they explained that most of the local stores were closed today since the Monday after Easter Sunday is a holiday. After our tour was over, we walked from where we were dropped off at the pier (in the rain) to a nearby open (Chinese owned) grocery store to pick up a couple of items. There we learned that we could not buy certain things due to the holiday. They did not have the other things we were looking for, so back out into the rain to walk a couple of more blocks to the Pharmacy. There we found what we needed and walked out to sunshine (rain was over) for our trek back to the pier. They had a local crafts bazar open next to the pier so we wandered through that admiring the craftmanship of the local artisans before getting on the tender back to the boat. Back on board, we went up to the pool deck to work on our tans! Since the “Le Truck” tour had covered everything we wanted to do, we just stayed on the ship the second day and enjoyed having nothing to do!
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| Le Truck |
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| Marlin Brando's Tiki Hut |
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| Marita Beach |
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| Names of Famous people who have visited Bloody Mary's |
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