Sunday April 20, 2014 Boa Bora, French Polynesia

We arrived in Bora Bora at 7 AM.   The only plan for today was to get a taxi or bus to Bloody Mary’s Restaurant and look around the shop areas.  We had breakfast in our room and leisurely enjoyed our coffee.  We have found that in ports where we have to take tenders to shore it is best to wait until all the passengers that have booked tours have already left.  They are given priority in loading the tenders.  By waiting on boarding the tenders are usually quicker.

I called Rick of R&R Cruisers, to see what they planned.  Their plans were to go to the beach in the morning and then to Bloody Mary’s for the cache on the way back.  We agreed to meet at 5pm in the explorer’s lounge.

On the way to the tender area we stopped at the library and picked up the daily Sudoku puzzles.  Not a lot of hope for me today the sheet had a medium difficulty and a hard.  The way these puzzles have been going I sometimes fail on the easy ones.

Once ashore we got a taxi to Bloody Mary’s, $5 US each, $5 each for the return.  Also in the taxi was a couple that we had met on board earlier, Cathy and Doug from Dayton, NV.  The reason for the trip to Mary’s was to find a cache there that I couldn't find two years ago.  The cache had been found several times since I missed it.  Once at the restaurant the cache was an easy find.  It couldn't have been there when I looked before.  After signing the log we joined Cathy and Doug for lunch.

Back at the harbor area we didn't do any shopping.  We went back aboard  After some rest and cleaning up we met Rick and Rosie in the Explorer Lounge.  They had gone to Bloody Mary’s for the cache.  Rick had trouble with his GPS and his iPhone and didn't have the hint that would have led him to the cache.  We told him he would have to do another cruise that included Bora Bora.

Rick and Rosie dine at the early seating so we parted company.  We went to the production show in the Princess Theater.  I am not a fan of this type of show.  After removing my hearing aids I was able to sleep through most of the show.  We went to dinner at our usual time.  Tonight our head waiter gave us our Easter menu to take home.

After some reading we called it a night.  We have eight more days at sea before reaching Los Angeles.