Graptolite - Consultation in Moorea
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Tue 6 May 2008 08:15
After a bit of rushing about in the morning getting groceries and collecting
laundry we set sail from Pape'ete to Moorea again and arrived in the
afternoon at Opunohu Bay (fabulous mountain scenery already described
following previous visits but this time with additional brooding rain clouds
and rainbows).
After me and the crew had a quick snorkel on the reef and a slab of tuna the
size of a housebrick for dinner, I had a call from my new Polynesian friend
Iren'aa, last seen near Raiatea. It turned out that Iren'aa was also back in
Moorea doing some interior design consultancy work for the Pearl Resort
chain. There was me thinking she was just a simple local girl but she
apparently spends a lot of time working in Europe and the USA. Iren'aa and
her business partner Wilson had been hired to redesign some rooms.
It sounds like a joke but there had been complaints of naked people swimming
under the over-water bungalows and looking into the bedrooms through the
glass reef observation coffee tables. I was offered free accommodation to
test the new room designs but we had already agreed to meet up with Heike
and her new skipper Petra on 'Viva' who should be arriving at the anchorage
soon. Iren'aa was able to take a hotel launch out to meet me at Graptolite
instead for a little late evening consultation.
M