It is 8 pm and J and I are all tuckered out - in fact J is already snoring in bed!! I will do my best to keep my eyes open and fill you in on the details.
Today we set an alarm for 6:15 am so we could be eating breakfast at Waves Grill as soon as it opened at 6:30 am. Our plan was to be in the Marina Theatre by 7:30 am all packed for a day of snorkelling and we needed to be on the first tender ride. That meant we were given the coveted red tickets to be on the first tender.
You see we had a private boat booked with Ato Lissant and six of us from Cruise Critic were travelling to Sable Rose. The boat ride to get there was at least 1.5 hours long - but our guide had to stop and fish for lunch food so that made it more like a two hour boat ride. It was a blue sky day and we covered up as much as we could with SPF clothing but I still ended up with burned skin on my neck and on the back of my hands.
We got to a remote village in Fakarava where we did a drift snorkel - hopped on land and walked back to the start and drifted again. We then boated to our own private island to have lunch. The two guides, Matai and Coco, built a fire and started cooking our fresh fish, lobster and chicken over the open flame. We explored this little tiny pink sand island, sat in the water and swam to totally enjoy the day. Talk about paradise!
We have our friends from Cambridge and Ottawa, ON with us on this fabulous day! We probably stayed 2 hours on this private island before loading up in the boat to head back.
We returned to the ships tender area by 4:15. We each paid $140 US for this tour - and it was very exclusive!!
Once back on the ship , we showered and cleaned up for supper. The Terrace Grill was a lovely to eat supper tonight.
Today was Superbowl Sunday and the ship had a viewing party with special food in Horizons on 15th Forward.
I really want to include a picture but know that wifi connectivity is pretty poor in the middle of the South Pacific and pictures really slow down the load speed!!
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