Lemke's Longitude & Latitude: ✔ the Bucket List

January 2, 2020

Moorea, French Polynesia

Up and ready for our final morning at our favorite beach shack.

Time to face my fear and visit the shark infested waters. OK, so it is only one area and they are black tipped sharks, but they are still scary to me. Andy and I took the kayaks out. He brought some of the tuna we bought. Pretty much as soon as we pulled up and he jumped in the water they were lovin' all over him. Climbing up his stomach and back. Once he gave them a little tuna they were not leaving him alone. I was pretty freaked out at this point watching sharks swim by and manta rays climbing on him so there was no way I was going to get in. The show from the kayak was plenty for me. I did get to pet them and they were so soft and happy with being touched. Such a unique experience.

Out of our place and drove down the road about 5 minutes. Coco Beach is a little island just out and west of our beach shack. They pick you up and take you to the island. They are supposed to have great snorkeling and a fun restaurant. They greeted us as we arrived and showed us to our table for the day.

It is right on the beach. The place is super cute. We couldn't wait to check out the great snorkeling and they pointed to the way. There was a lot of current and we walked up the beach (against the current) thinking we would get in and do a drift snorkel. made it out to the center of the channel and it was rippin and there was nothing to see! A big disappointment. Time for lunch at that point. They served us olives in a clam shell which was a fun touch. We had amazing poke (according to my three raw fish eating loves) and some great fish k-bobs.

Most people spend the day here I guess, but we were ready to go after about 90 minutes. I think we are spoiled after our last place.

Drove back to the area we spent our first night in, Maharepa, and checked into the Manava hotel. We have a beautiful over the water bungalow. I can officially "✔ "staying in an over the water hut" off my bucket list! I don't think we were here more than 3 minutes and the kids were doing flips and jumps off the deck. It was a hot, relaxing afternoon.