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Mo'orea Scooter Day
25 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Rented scooters for the day and circled the island
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VoyageurLove Moorea!
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Rangiroa (pron: ran GEE roa)
26 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Goodby cruise ship, Hello Rangiroa!
Rangiroa is an atoll made up of 240-415 islets (exact number varies by source). It is considered one atoll, is the largest in French Polynesia (approx. 20 miles x 50 miles), and the second largest in the world (behind Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands). Its highest elevation is only 39 feet!
Rangiroa is known to divers as 'God's Aquarium'. Janine & I are scheduled for 3 2-tank dives over the next three days while lodging at Le Maitai Rangiroa.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Gorgeous
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Voyageur Is this where you’re staying?
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Janine Westlund Yes, this is the Hotel MaiTai -- rooms, pool & restaurant/bar right on the water.
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Rangiroa Day 2 - Dive Day 1
27 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ 🌬 81 °F
Today j9 and I broke off and had two dives with Top Dive. The first dive we had our first close encounter with dolphins
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Additional dolphin videos
28 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ 🌬 82 °F
Addition dolphin videos
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Voyageur ❤️❤️❤️
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Rangiroa Day 3 - Dive Day 2
28 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ 🌬 82 °F
No dolphins today, but another two enjoyable dives. One outside of the lagoon on the ocean. The second was a drift dive thru the entrance to the lagoon.
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VoyageurWhat a trip!
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Rangiroa Day 4 - Day dive 3
29 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ 🌬 82 °F
Last day diving. Forgot my GoPro, so no pictures. Had two dives with a lots of schools of fish. During the second dive a single dophin played with us for about 5 minutes :)
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Last day in Rangiroa
30 janvier 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ 🌬 82 °F
Last day in Rangiroa. Later today we're off to Fiji. Since you can't scuba dive the day you fly, we took a little bike ride.
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VoyageurWould you go back?
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VoyageurI don't think so. As you know, the world is a big place
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Long travel day to Fiji via New Zealand
31 janv.–1 févr. 2025, Polynésie française ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Crazy day of travel.
We left Rangiroa ~5p Thurs Jan 30th landed in Papeete, Tahiti on time Thurs eve. Chris & Linda headed to their hotel in Papeete for a few days. We had dinner with Nick and Shawn at the airport. Nick and Shawn left ~11 p.m heading home (Colorado). We remained in the airport for the next leg of our journey. Our next stop is Fiji, but it required a 5-hour trip to New Zealand followed by a 3 hour flight to Fiji with a 1.5 hour layover. The NZ leg was delayed from a 3:45a departure to a 5:05a departure; this jeopardized our connecting flight. Lucky for us, there were 11 folks with the same itinerary, so the airline held our connecting flight for us. Odd feeling when the flight attendant asks everyone on board to remain in their seats so we 11 could disembark. Now it's gets interesting. We left NZ at 5:05 am. on Jan 30th, but landed 5 hours later, 10 am Feb 1st, and skipped 17 hours of Jan 31st.
We effectively skipped over Jan 31. Crazy.En savoir plus
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VoyageurThat is quite a travel "day"... looks like Fiji has been worth it though!!
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VoyageurThe resort had excellent diving, but our week cruise on a 60 person boat helped get the true feel of Fiji
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VoyageurWhat a day!
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Fiji Day 1 Dive 1
2 février 2025, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Our dive master goes over our first dive site: named "Hi8".
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Voyageur My favorite place ❤️
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Voyageur Oh brother. J9 is navigating.
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VoyageurShe makes it more interesting
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Fiji Day 1 Dive 2
2 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Voyageur When you dive are the colors as brilliant?
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VoyageurMore brilliant than the pictures. This was the most brilliant dive of my life. The only downfall is the lack of larger fish
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Fiji Day 2 Dive 1
3 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Dive called Wheat Fields.

Check out the first two dive pictures. One is with and another without my lights on.
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Voyageur Great Picture
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Voyageur Love this!
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VoyageurWhat are you using to take pics?
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VoyageurGoPro 12, with a 4000 light
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Fiji Day 2 Dive 2
3 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Voyageur Beautiful
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Fiji Sunset
3 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
VoyageurVery nice 👍. Calm seas 😊
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Fiji Day 3 Dive 1
4 février 2025, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Dive called Instant Replay should be renamed Hold on Tight, because the tide on the edge of the reef was an amusement ride, no swimming required with awesome views

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Fiji Day 3 Dive 2
4 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
This dive site is called Underwater Water Fantasy and was spectacular!
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Voyageur Amazing....
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Fiji Day 4 Dive 1
5 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Today, the plan is to dive the local dive locations. The first Dive was called Golden Dreams
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Fiji Day 4 Dive 2
5 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Our 2nd dive was called Dream Maker; and indeed it was. The water was clear, and there a lot of fan corals as we swam thru a number of narrow passages. I quess they trust that we won't damage the corals as they are very fragile.

Later that day back at the resort j9 and I went kayakingEn savoir plus
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Voyageur Wow!!! Stunning!
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VoyageurSuitable for framing
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Fiji Day 5 Dive 1
6 février 2025, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
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Fiji Day 5 Dive 2
6 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
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Fiji Day 5 - Bird Island
6 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ 🌬 81 °F
A small little island near the reefs is called Bird Island. Our dive captain was gracious enough to stop at the island for a short time to check out a place where birds have no predators and eggs are just laying on the sand.En savoir plus
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Fiji Day 5 Dive 3
6 février 2025, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌬 82 °F
We were told we're doing an exploration dive on an as-yet unnamed reef.
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Local entertainment
6 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
A local group puts on a show every Sunday. What's fun is the children truly look like they are enjoying themselves.
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Fiji harbor; Start cruise
7 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
Arriving in the Harbor where we will board our next boat and cruise through and around the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands.
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Fiji Cruise Day 1 - Modriki Island
7 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
Friday - 1st Night:

We boarded Blue Lagoon Cruises! Set sail on M.V.Fiji Princess from Port Denarau for outer Mamanucas.

Our first stop was secluded location at Modriki, which was the location for the Tom Hanks movie CastAway. J9 and I attempted to reach the west side of the island for the sunset, but couldn't reach it by foot. Walking back to the boat we found we were the remaining few folks on the island, so we're happy they had a list of everyone that left the boat. Regretfully I didn't get a chance to go for a swim.

The Captain's Welcome Dinner was a bust since the AC on the boat was not working :(

Seems the scheduled entertainment also didn't happen, but we talked the bartender to into including the local rum into the free drinks for the night. Happy days :)

Regarding the AC, they were on their game as a boat with a mechanic arrived that evening to fix the AC. Must admit, had my doubts the AC was going to be fixed and was making plans to sleep on the deck.En savoir plus
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VoyageurWe went there. Pretty cool island. They also filmed a survivor there and on the surrounding islands.
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Day 2 - En route to next location
8 février 2025, Fidji ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
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