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TAHITI & MO’OREA
After an overnight sail from Bora Bora, we arrived in Papeete Tahita at 5am, and at 6am, five of us were off the ship and boarding a ferry to Mo’orea for a tour of the island on our own. We found a small little heart shaped island, less populated than Bora Bora or Tahiti with…
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BORA BORA
FRENCH POLYNESIA continued Bora Bora is our first stop in French Polynesia, and I was captured at once. It is a beautiful island and I have never experienced seeing coral and fish like this in all my many snorkelling or diving experiences. Hundreds of fish and immense variety as well. Colourful, beautiful and they swim…
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FRENCH POLYNESIA
Some one asked me the other day which was my favourite port or country on this trip, and I couldn’t really come up with an answer. I liked or was fascinated by so many different places. But I know now. It’s French Polynesia. I love this part of the world. It seems like all the…
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Before we reached Pago Pago, (pronounced pango pango) we crossed over the International dateline and had two Wednesday May 23s. That was strange. In Pago Pago, our tour took us on a drive around the island. We experienced a lovely island steeped very much in the old traditions. There are somewhere between 62 and 84…
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NUKU’ALOFA, TONGA
As we head north from New Zealand to Tonga, we have three sea days and with each day the weather gets a little warmer. We are leaving fall and heading back to warmer climes. Coming out of the shelter of New Zealand we run into some pretty rough weather, but by the next day all…
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PICTON, NEW ZEALAND
Sailing into Picton, the gateway to the South Island and the Marlborough & Queen Charlotte Sounds, is a beautiful experience. Picton is a small town located on the northern tip of the South Island with a population of about 5000. It is the main link between the north and south islands via ferries which carry people…
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NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND
The beauty and calm of Napier belies the fact that early, 10:36am, on a quiet morning on February 3, 1931, a horrific earthquake hit this city causing destruction and death. The earthquake destroyed this city and nearby Hastings. Some 4000 hectares of todays’s Napier was actually undersea before the earthquake caused the land to rise up and…
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BIRTHDAYS
No they didin’t give me someone else’s cake. My passport says Helen Patricia Watt, so Helen it is, on all my ship documents. Oh well, I know who I am!! There isn’t really a table or area to hold a huge amount of people, so my birthday got split into three days. I am not…
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KIWIS, SHEEP & COWS
TAURANGA, NEW ZEALAND Everything you ever wanted to know about kiwis….fruit & birds Did you know that the kiwi is a type of Chinese gooseberry. Then some smart dude, Hayward, from New Zealand started working on it and turned that gooseberry into what we know as a kiwi today. Ninety-five percent of all kiwis are…
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AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
After three days tearing across the Tasman Sea, we arrived in Auckland on New Zealand’s north island on May 13. Since no tours were planned for that day, a few of us decided to do the HOHO bus and learn a little about the city. New Zealand is made up of three islands – North,…
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