After three nights in Tahiti, (we thought it was going to be two but got confused with the International Dateline), we have arrived in the Tuamotus - a series of atolls to the north and east of Tahiti. The one hour flight on a smallish (a couple of buses long) plane with propellers had Nick closing his eyes a little on take off and landing. Which was a shame as he missed the spectacular views of Rangiroa as we came in to land.
We were met at the airport by Alain, the owner of the pension where we are staying (Pension Bounty). He is a diver himself so asked if we wanted to get a dive in today - so he took us straight round to the dive centre where he dives, The Six Passengers. Though very busy, it is Easter, they had space for us to join a group on their 2pm dive.
Alan took us to the Pension where we had time for a snack and to unpack our luggage and sort out our dive gear in time for the pick up from the dive centre.
So this afternoon, we've been out on the ocean side of the atoll, swimming in the blue then along the reef, watching the huge amounts of fish swim by, as well as a turtle (which I hand-fed), a few reef sharks and a mother and baby dolphin - very lovely. The corals are not a colourful as Fiji but the fish are much more plenteous.
Then back to the pension and a stroll down to the beach to watch the sun going down over the lagoon!
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