We are welcomed with flowers

Demonstration of the dyeing of the pareos


A pareo drying with the designs on it


Some of the luxury homes owned by American film stars (Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson)


Crabs live all around the shore and they eat anything.  We threw flowers at the holes and they ran out, grabbed the flowers and they took them back home.  In the centre are two crabs each pulling the same flower to their different holes.


One of the only white sand beaches


The 'Bloody Mary' restaurant

The pool bar


The pool deck

Dinner at a restaurant built entirely out of straw for the July festival


An island's singers competing in the islands' July festival


Our usherettes


Some of the dancers competing at the festival
Oh!  Those are coconut shells


A favourite sport is surfing on a boat's wake by kayak


The glass-bottom boat trip


Our tour guide feeds the fish on the corals


And then the stingrays came


He swam around with them, feeding them.  They expect him the same time every day


Bringing one of them for us to stroke.  This one was pregnant


A typical hotel.  This is the Sofitel (now closed due to the economic situation)


Bora Bora in silhouette


And then we had to sail at sunset (with Tony)