Bicycle around island

July 15, 2015 0745
mooring off of Maikai Marina
Aloha everyone, hope you all are enjoying life, we are! Yesterday morning, after spending some time on boat projects, we headed to Vaitape, and rented some bikes. We headed off and enjoyed the views. We stopped by Bloody Mary's, to check it out. It is a famous restaurant which has sands floors, and great food and ambience. They were closed as it was Bastille Day. We checked out moorings, and the place looked little different from last time. We went on to see the The Hotel Bora Bora, a dilapidated mess, which was the premier hotel when we were here last. Tahiti seems to have a bad habit that when a building gets run down, instead of restoring it or tearing it down and rebuilding, they seem to leave it to rot. Very sad. We continued on around the island stopping at Matira beech for lunch of baggette, cheese, salami, and apples. The water was numerous colors of aqua, green and blue, with a small ray swimming by. Delightful. We continued on until our butts were sore. Although we probably we were close to halfway, hard to tell due to the convolutions of the road. We headed back, watched some of their festival goings on, had a hinano, and went to the "yacht club", where we enjoyed a cocktail and a swim in their infinity pool while enjoying the view. Back at boat, we read, cooked some hamburgers, and finished watching American Sniper. glad we saw it, more glad it is over! During the night, the current held the boat a bit sideways to the swell, so we did some rocking. However, after the bike ride, I think we all slept okay. Today it dawned wet and rainy. It could be a reading, card games, project sort of day. All for now! David and Karin

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