Today was a special day, it’s our last day touring together as a group, and we will be spending a big chunk of it in the Blue Lagoon of Bora Bora. We met our lagoon cruiser (boat) at the pier of our hotel at 9:20 a.m., and we met Captain Tao, who would show us around. Our first stop was near the reef, the water was so clear and light blue. This is where the mantra rays were swimming. Most of us got in the water, in our snorkel gear. I was a bit nervous (first time) and hadn’t gone far from the ladder yet. Captain Tao could see I was nervous and came to coach me. He held onto my hands, told me to relax and that he wouldn’t let me go. He was very assuring! So I did it - they come close and I stroked them several times, they are very soft and smooth. I got my head down in the water and had a good look at them 👍 WOW, so elegant.
Our next stop was called the coral garden, I got into the water again and could see hundreds of multi-coloured fish around us. A lot were striped, and different sizes. The third stop was to swim with the black tipped lagoon sharks (reef sharks) - this one I passed as the water seemed really deep. Ian got in for the experience but a lot of us were content to watch from the boat. We could clearly see about 11 of them swimming around the boat, they didn’t bother anyone. They looked to be about 4-5 feet long.
After all that excitement we went to a private ‘motu’ (islet) for lunch. We had rice, bbq chicken, beef and marlin - all delicious. Followed by fruit and coconut cake. We sat at a big picnic table in the water and dangled our feet amongst the little fishes, who we soon discovered, liked to eat any food we dropped - such as rice. Captain Tao had serenaded us on the boat with his songs and ukulele playing, he did so again after lunch, along with his cousin who’d organized the bbq lunch.
We returned to the hotel about 3 p.m. for a rest before meeting at 5 for drinks, watching the sunset and our last dinner.
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