Up early this morning (6.00am) so we could shower, shave, shampoo, have breakfast and be in reception at 8am for our tour pick up. Breakfast was a wonderful buffet in the restaurant with all the usual juices (mango), cereals, yogurts, cooked brekky and fruit. Our tour guide, Marie, was right on time at reception and we were joined by a couple from Melbourne. After that we drove right to the top corner of the island, picking up from other hotels. We visited the in...

Up early this morning to check out and head to the airport. The early Sunday episode of Doctor Who that Tivo always tapes for us was playing and was quite distracting - let's hope Tivo will have it waiting for us on our return! We were at check in reasonably early, but the flight is full and because it's with Qantas and our tickets booked by Air Tahiti Nui we were unable to preselect our seats. We wholeheartedly agree with seatguru that the row immediately in fro...

So - Sunday again - Up early this morning for another shower. It is very humid, although we slept with the aircon on all night. Just a few hours sleep then showered, dressed and ready for the 8am pickup from reception. This transfer took us through Papeete to the ferry terminal where we boarded the ferry for Moorea. Papeete is very quiet - everything is closed on a Sunday and everyone was going to church services. The ferry was quite large, with the bottom level ...

Afternoon departures are soooo tedious - the day just takes forever. We spent this morning packing and waiting before Chari drove us down to Jess and Pete's. After freshening up we left just as a freak storm hit Penrith. We were doing 40kph on the motorway, with our hazard warning lights on! - until we pulled on to the shoulder and waited it out for five minutes or so...... There were trees down and the side of the motorway was littered with the shredded leaves f...