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Moorea day-trip

We woke around 0900 which meant it was too late for the early boat to Moorea.  We took things easy and walked to town for the 1200 ferry, operated by the Aremiti 5.  It was a very big and smooth ferry and it took only about half hour to make the journey across to Moorea. […]

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Relaxing

With the time difference from Auckland, we woke around 0930 today.  We walked to the Carrefour supermarket promptly to get some food supplies.  It’s expensive here so we didn’t want to eat at the hotel.  While inside Carrefour, we had a delicious thin pizza and followed up with a toasted panini outside once the shopping […]

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Arriving yesterday

As we had crossed the International Dateline getting to Rarotonga and then Papeete, we landed on Saturday 15 October, a day before we had departed.  But just barely, as our arrival was at around 2340. Kim organised for us to get on the crew transport to the crew hotel, the Intercontinental Hotel, where we had […]

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