Moorea 19th October 2011

About 12 miles north west of Tahiti, enchanting Moorea is known as Tahiti’s little sister, and still retains an air of traditional Polynesian.  The island is very beautiful – mountains leap almost vertically out of the clear lagoon, lush vegetation, and peaceful quiet lifestyles. Moorea is an extinct volcano - Cook’s Bay and Opunoha Bay mark the floor of the ancient crater.  A reef encircles the island with a shallow and narrow lagoon. The interior is dense forest. Although it is not as developed, tourism wise, as Bora Bora, Moorea is still dominated by tourism.  The cruise ship anchored in the beautiful Opunoha Bay.  This bay was the setting for most of the South Pacific scenes from the film “The Bounty”.

This was the island where we got married in 1999, when sailing through the South Pacific.   We arranged to get off the boat for the night and stay in the Hibiscus hotel, where we stayed on our wedding night.

Once checked into the hotel, we took a tour around the island, and stopped over the other side of the island at the yacht club to see Will.

That evening we went to the dinner and show at the Tiki Village, where we got married. Dinner was cooked in polynesian style, in the ground  

They re enacted a wedding very similar to ours, 12 years ago, as part of the show:

They also performed a great show


The next morning we headed to the ferry dock to get the half hour ferry ride over to Tahiti to meet the cruise ship again.