October 2019 Tahiti Vacation — Days 7 and 8

Day 7 — Saturday:

We were all exhausted from three busy days in a row. It took us until noon to get moving, and then we just went to Carrefour to get something to eat. After lunch, Keith and Eric went to the pool. At dinner time, none of us felt like cooking, so we went to a pizza restaurant inside the nearby Marina Tahina complex.

Before we ate, we strolled around the marina. At the far north end of the marina are two buildings that we are pretty sure are new. One looks like a laundry room on the ground floor with an apartment above it, and the other is a restaurant (maybe two restaurants sharing the building?) that has a new dinghy dock.

Other than that, the marina looks the same. Most of the boats are Mediterranean-moored, with passarelles to get on and off the dock. While we do remember the building that the pizza restaurant was in on the southern side of the marina, we don’t remember it being a restaurant. Here are a couple pictures:

The new dinghy dock at the new restaurant.

Keith was the only one to order pizza, and he liked it. Christi got Continue reading

October 2019 Tahiti Vacation — Days 3 and 4

Day 3 – Tuesday

We started the day off by heading over to Mahana Park to go snorkeling. Unfortunately, Keith did not want to get into the water. 

Because of the recent full moon, the current was unusually strong. Christi and Eric had bought new fins for the trip that were attached rugged water shoes. The selling point of these fins is that they are easy to walk in, making it much easier to enter via the beach; the downside of these fins is that they don’t provide as much power while swimming as full length fins. Christi only went in for a short time because she felt like she couldn’t fight the current with those little fins. 

Keith and Christi hung out on the beach looking for beach glass while Rose and Eric snorkeled. Here are some pictures that Rose took: 

Parrotfish

Afterwards, Keith and Eric went to Continue reading

October 2019 Vacation in Tahiti — Days 1 and 2

We are on vacation in Tahiti (by airplane). Since Tahiti is such a special place to us, we wanted to write some posts about what it has been like to come back again.

Day 1 – Sunday 

Our flight arrived at 6:00 am. Keith and our friend Rose were astounded to see chickens running around the airport’s parking lot. Christi and Eric informed them we’d be seeing chickens everywhere.

We rented a car and headed straight to the condo that we had rented in a suburb to the southwest of Papetee, the main city in Tahiti. The condo is near the airport and Marina Tahina. The condo had looked nice online, and Continue reading