Day 17 -
What a wonderful time in Tahiti and French Polynesia.  I want to get this post up quickly, but hopefully I will be able to post some better pictures later.  We spent 3 fantastic days in French Polynesia at 3 locations.  The first day in the Tahiti city of Papeete where we went diving for the first time.  Beautiful warm water, about 88 degrees F and clear water, but a bit overcast skies.  The dive master was great and took us to a reef where they have the large sea turtles.  We had them swimming right at us and got some great pics.  I’m not sure how the pics will show up, but watching the turtles glide past majestically about 3 feet away was beautiful to experience. So the first dive went great.

Day 2 in French Polynesia was at Huahine where we didn’t get in the water, but took tour in a jeep-like contraption.  After our 4 hour tour in the morning I wanted to go watch the Superbowl, that turned out to be not so super, and Ingrid went on another 4 hour tour in the afternoon.  George went with Ingrid, since he didn’t want to watch New England win “Another” Superbowl, and Jan watched the game with me in the theater with screaming NE fans.

Day 3 in French Polynesia was in Raiatea, “you can see Bora Bora from the dive site!”.  We did two dives that were amazing.  On both dives we were greeted by blacktip sharks, that we were told were not interested in divers.  Our dive master, Mathew, said, “Why eat bones and gristle when you can have the best sushi in the world?”  Well, it was nice that the sharks listened to his advice, but having 6’ sharks, sometimes many at a time, sharing our Pacific bathtub was a bit “interesting” to say the least.  I will post this now so you know that we weren’t eaten and I will try to post a little more when time permits.

Large sea turtles as close as 3 feet just gliding along!
Ingrid and George heading out to the dive site with the Pacific Princess in the background.
Somehow the 6' sharks always look hungry!

Ingrid with two blacktip sharks. We saw many more.




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  1. Paula CoxFebruary 5, 2019 at 5:52 AM

    I love the turtle pictures . Sounds like a warm and wonderful time.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 5, 2019 at 11:32 AM

    More Leo... hope you are having fun. Jean, Andrew and Katie say hi...Thad

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  3. UnknownFebruary 5, 2019 at 3:58 PM

    You are in my top bucket list vacation spot. So happy for you two!

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  4. UnknownFebruary 5, 2019 at 3:58 PM

    Oh, that was Dana:)

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  5. UnknownFebruary 6, 2019 at 3:56 PM

    Loving the blog. Safe travels.

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  6. Kim GFebruary 7, 2019 at 1:20 PM

    What an adventure!! Love that you are sharing it with us!! I’m adding these places to my list! And yes, the super bowl was very disappointing. Wonder if they will play the Academy Awards for you? Have fun!!

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