Saturday 27 June 2009

23rd June, Opunohu Bay, Moorea, French Polynesia

More internet jobs this morning – making the most of the good signal!!
At 11am we headed off in the dinghies with Andy (Calysta) and Karen and Guy (American Boat, Szel) to go and see the sting rays. There is an area where the sting rays of fed that is spectacular. The water is crystal clear and there are sting rays swimming around everywhere with black tip reef sharks. We were hoping a tourist boat would turn up and fed them which is meant to be amazing so after a swim round sat in the dinghies to wait. A local guy in a canoe turned up and was feeding the rays and then checking their teeth – our French wasn’t good enough to find out what he was checking the teeth for??!! We asked if we could get in the water as well which he was happy for us to do. The sting rays assumed we must have food as well and started bumping into us – they seemed to particularly like Jonny!!
After lunch we relaxed with our books until Nemesis turned up. They brought us back our spare anchor that they had borrowed after they had bent theirs leaving Manihi and also a bottle of wine to say thank you.
We went over to Nemesis for sun down drinks with Andy.

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