More of Moorea

December 30, 2019

Moorea

It was a hot night (no air conditioning) and these French Polynesian roosters are very rude.  They woke us up early.  : -) Things definitely seem to start early here and not just the roosters.

Boys ran out to the grocery store for breakfast stuff and came back with a big surprise.  The  surprise was, no not a baguette - but they did get that, we got charging cables!!! Yes, we have all been surviving off of one cable!

Breakfast and a quick goodbye to Marie our wonderful host. Saylor and Hudson got their first French, double kiss-one on each cheek.

On our drive to the new place we saw some fun fruit stands along the way and decided to stop.  We got an amazing, local avocado that is bright green.  Super tasty!

Drove 30 minutes west and checked into our perfect hut on the water, with AC! 

We are located on the west side of the island at Sunset beach.  ( Fare Nehenehe 87.72.21.46 which I believe is the phone number  because we must come back). It is right on the waters edge with a spectacular view and a perfect white sand beach.  No big break water out front so swimming and snorkeling is easy.  Today's high was 86 degrees with a low of 79 and humid,  so love being in the water.

We have some long time friends from Florida staying here at the Hilton,  just 10 minutes down the road.  Haven't seen them in 15 years so it was fun to connect with them.  They had a beautiful over the water hut and were generous enough to share it with us for the day.

                                                                                       

After a fun rum drink, we all went  for a snorkel and it was pretty special.  Lots of beautiful coral, so many different types of fish to see.  Loved the parrot fish with their spectacular colors,  a big trigger fish, puffer fish, long yellow stick fish, green lion fish and even saw a sting ray! Company, location and snorkel were the best!

*photo credits to Kris Berkheiser

On the way back to our place we saw the cutest little trailer, La Macaroulotte,  in a garden setting with the ocean as a backdrop.  It was accented with pink this and that.

We ordered our macrons (banana, salted caramel and a berry - $1.25 each) and they were the best we have EVER had! Seriously, the best! She was this cute French women with the perfect French accent and the perfect french macarons. We will for sure be going back tomorrow and I'm going to ask her if she will teach me how to make her most perfect macarons!

Back to our beach hut for some down time and then to dinner at Tiahura. I got my local shrimp that I have been craving and we also got that beautiful parrot fish that we saw earlier today.  Turns out that the insides are as beautiful as the outside.  The bones are green.  Who would have thought? Andy and I had a fruity rum drink.

Out on our deck and enjoying the view and the wind.  Normally, the wind is not something I look forward to on vacation, but it helps to keep us cool and especially good at keeping the bugs away from us! Fingers crossed that it doesn't bring in a storm for tomorrow.