A Fun Day In Bora Bora And A Change Of Plans

We went on a wave runner tour today around the island and had a blast!  The day started out rainy (again) but cleared to partly cloudy just in time for our excursion.

This is the third time we've done the circumnavigation thing...and it never gets old!  The water is so beautiful it's really hard to feel sorry for the poor bastards who live and work so hard here.

This is the JoeCam (he drove, I took pictures).

Saw another ray...trust me, that's a ray - the dark bit just in the foreground of the wave runner.

The water is so beautiful, even our brand new camera can't do it justice.

The water is so shallow here, it's almost white.

I never get tired of this view.

Once we got back into town, we stopped at a little cafe for a beer and a sandwich.

And we made some friends...

Did some shopping...

And then headed back to the ship.  Just in time for the sunset.

So it seems that a tropical depression is heading straight for Samoa and Pago Pago (our next three ports), and they are expecting torrential rains and high sea swells.  Our Captain wisely decided that he didn't want to sail through that and put us all at risk for sea sickness and capsizing, so, we are headed instead for Tonga...an even more remote and exotic port.  Tonga is known for its crystalline turquoise waters and idyllic white sugar sand beaches - some consider them the best in the world.  I'm kind of excited about it...especially the part about not capsizing.