Sunday, November 6, 2016

Report #43 Opunohu Bay, Moorea, French Polynesia November 5, 2016 Saturday Sailaway Part #3 Of 3 79 Pictures

Leaving Moorea…………

View from Opunohu Bay

Taken from the aft deck

Afternoon photo of the peak

Private road to a home – extremely steep

Scenic

Island living

Quiet bay

Small boat landing

Sun was going down soon

Can see this boat

Boaters

Covered in sea haze

Partly cloudy

Inaccessible we think

Usually these peaks are in the clouds

Hidden homes on the shoreline

Sailboat heaven

Gone fishing………

Heard there was a vanilla plantation up here

A clearing for planting

Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort

Over-the-water huts

Some beachfront

Small boats in the reef

Wind Spirit did not stay

Expensive resort

Leaving the bay at Moorea

So steep

It may rain yet

Smaller rentals

Private

Locals

Unclimbable


Good place to stay

Getting hazy, despite the wind

This sail boat was in Papeete

Peaks in the shadows now

Leaving soon after 5pm

Civilized

Hilton Resort

Perfect size

Many huts

Water bird….all alone

More birds

A buoy

For the birds

In flight

Reef surrounds this island

Dangerous to ships

Finally leaving

Need rain here

Up close

Heading towards the Tuamotus now

Little church at Papetoai

Sister island to Tahiti

Green garden island

There goes the Wind Spirit

Bali Hai?  Not exactly…..

Sails hoisted, heading into the sun

Island getting smaller

Sun going down

Island of many peaks

Heading west

Neat sunset

Going down by 6:07pm

Sinking fast

Bird in the sunset

Neat photo

Going behind the clouds again

Still a nice sunset

Getting dark

Bird heading back to shore

Higher clouds

Picking up some color

Locals see this every evening

A sunset to remember

About done

The color fading

And away we go………………..