January 24: Beautiful Bora Bora!

Somewhere in this pile of photos you'll see sunrise at Bora Bora where we anchored at 8 am today. We had a tour of the whole main island that took us up to gun emplacements from WWI and WWII, around past fabulous over-water hotels, past Bloody Mary's, to a pearl farm to see about the black pearls that are raised here, and to a tie-dye place where they made lovely pareos. Beautiful views everywhere! Tonight we don't leave until 10:30, so we might have a lovely sunset on these mountains. A Sea Day tomorrow and then we're in the Cook Islands on Rarotonga the next day...no more French Islands...the Cooks use NZ currency...so time to change.
We've been disappointed that Internet in the Islands is poor (or nonexistent) so I am having to judiciously use my ship Internet to post this and get emails. Once we're in NZ soon, things will be easier (and cheaper.)
We've already had one person break their leg on the ship (she's waiting to see a doc in Auckland to see if she's ok to continue) but a friend of a friend on board had to fly home from Papeete due to a detached retina. Things happen no matter where you are...