Cooks Bay, Moorea
Lynn & Mike ..around the world
Mike Drinkrow & Lynn v/d Hoven
Sun 26 May 2013 02:39
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17:30.11S 149:49.19W Cooks Bay, Moorea
We have been anchored in the very dramatic and beautiful Cooks
Bay for a few days. This is a very deep bay surrounded by high mountains with
all kinds of interesting shapes. And we are keeping good company too, with a few
Superyachts and some friends from Papeete.
  Dragonfly ...75m plaything of the Google
lads!
The schooner ARGO, anchored next to us
On our first night we went to an exhibition of Tahitian dancing at the Bali
Hai Hotel. The outfits are exactly as expected ...grass skirts and pareos,
with lots of flowers and the hand movements very complicated and beautiful to
watch. Mike took a little dancing lesson with one of the gals. The
video is well worth seeing
   Today we took the Boston Whaler about 6km across to the north west of the
island to a reef that is know for its friendly stingrays and black-tip sharks.
What an amazing experience to swim with these animals - as you jump in the water
the stingrays come right up to you and touch you.. rubbing up against you. Quite
a fright I got, when it happened the first time, but then you enjoy it, touching
their soft spongy bodies as they swim past. I did have a few "Steve Irwin
flashes" when the tail (sting) touched me!
We were with our friends the Reynolds from Offshore, who also have their
parents with them - it was a lovely day on the water - which we ended with a
beer and some dessert at a restaurant on the local Motu (small island)
  About to stroke the
ray For
those of your that thought Mike was scared of sharks!
The Cooks Bay anchorage is so beautiful, I thought I would add one
more picture - Time 2 in the middle!
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