Graptolite - To The Blue Lagoon
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Thu 10 Apr 2008 20:22
For the past couple of days we have been anchored off the very posh Kia Ora
Hotel on Rangiroa. Yachts are brilliant for this kind of thing. It's just
like staying at the hotel free of charge except the room service is a bit
slow and there are no chocolates on your pillow. The restaurant was
excellent and we ate there a few times. Last night there was a hula dancing
show for the handful of hotel guests and us. Foolishly, I let myself be
persuaded to wiggle my hips in public. I think some of the waiters
appreciated it.
We also availed ourselves of the hotels diving centre and compared wiggles
with huge Moray eels and Blacktip sharks. This diving thing is a piece of
cake and I don't know why it's taken me so long to get into it although I
should probably get a lesson or two sometime.
We are currently sailing across the atoll to go to the Blue Lagoon which is
a smaller lagoon inside the bigger Rangiroa lagoon. For those of you not
familiar with the scale of these features (I assume most of you), Rangiroa
is a mere 38 miles wide.
M