It is just after 6am Sunday and we are making the 12 mile voyage over to Moorea now. Thought I would tell you about our day yesterday in Tahiti. I was kind of disappointed with the island. It will not be on my list of places I want to return to for sure. As all islands in the South Pacific, Tahiti was formed thousands of years ago from volcanic eruptions below the ocean. The terrain is fairly flat now from the sea shore for about a mile or two inland then mountains rise almost vertically up a couple thousand feet so the people almost all live along the coast. Lush vegetation covers the island with lots of very beautiful flowers and flowering shrubs & trees. This is about all I found worth seeing. The beaches are black lava sand and not very big. In the morning we made short walk into Papeete and found the “market place”. As you can see in the photos it was a colorful and interesting place with all kinds of hand made products, produce, and fresh fish. Along the way there were several jewelry stores and black pearls are the main item for sale on Tahiti. After lunch back onboard the ship we boarded a tour bus for a four hour excursion and visited the Museum of Tahiti (interesting place), an very old temple ground called Marae Arahuahu (very interesting), then on to the Paul Gauguin Museum (waste of time in my opinion as none of his original paintings are in it). We were back to the ship by 6pm. By the way it was overcast and rained most of the day. It had stopped by evening so the ship went ahead with the dinner under the stars (still overcast though). I went up and took pictures and it was a beautiful presentation with ice sculptures that were unbelievable. We enjoyed dinner in the dining room however. After dinner local performers put on an incredible show in the ship’s lovely showroom. Sounds and dancing of French Polynesia. I hope my pictures came out ok and will show you what our day was like. Ok, it is about 7am now so 11am in Dallas. We will be attempting to listen to our church service back in Dallas via the internet again as we did last Sunday morning. Will be back later today with what happened today in Moorea. As we listen to Elizabeth’s sermon now, we are about to anchor just off shore at Moorea. Now THIS is heaven on earth! So beautiful!!
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