Graptolite - Takes To The Air
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sat 26 Apr 2008 03:56
afternoon
Dinner at the Bora Bora Hotel must be hard to beat. Guidebooks call the
place one of the finest hotels in the world. Probably. Some credit though
must go to its very sexy location.
In the morning, Heike brought her boat from the Yacht Club to raft up
alongside us in the harbour. After breakfast, she hustled us all onto a
helicopter she had secretly rented for a scenic tour. The largesse of the
girl is getting worrying and I am beginning to suspect Heike might really be
the head a major crime organisation or similar. Swooping around Bora Bora's
lagoons, reefs and mountain sides in a chopper is a bit special. Great trip
Heike but you know I was going to let you come back to crew on Grapto next
month anyway!
There was some demand for snorkelling later in the morning so we took the
boats to anchor off the reef in front of the Bora Bora Hotel. Our on-water
dwellings annexing, at no cost, the world's finest thatched over-water
bungalows of the hotel. Or indeed water buffaloes as our resident
wordmangler Colin calls them.
It's Friday afternoon now and we are sailing back to Tahiti to put Belinda
on a plane on Sunday so she can go back to work. Groan! New crew, Jean, is
arriving from Australia about the same time. Hurray!
M