Society Islands

First an update on the weather. From time to time we all have a what was I thinking moment. My latest is when I looked at the weather charts and read the wind to be out of the West.  It really is going to be out of the East when we head to Suwarrow and that is a good thing.

French Polynesia is divide into five Island groups of witch we visited three.  The first was the Marquises, then the Tuamotus and now the Society Islands.  The Marquises are beautiful jagged mountains raising out of the ocean with the amazing overlooks.  The Tuamotus were atolls with crystal clear turquoise and blue water full of sea life for snorkelers and divers. The Society Islands are both.  Mountains, some what smaller as they are older,  surrounded by an atoll.  The snorkeling and diving is great and the landscape is awesome to a person used to flatland

I hope you enjoy the pictures..

Manta ray

Manta ray

Morey eel

 

 

Moorea Overlook

Moorea Overlook

Moorea view of Tahiti

Moorea overlook to D.'oupnohu Bay

Moorea

Moorea

Moorea

Moorea overlook

Moorea looking at Cooks Bay

Our trip up Aoppomau River

Our trip up Aoppomau River

Tahiti

Tahiti

Tahiti

Tahiti

Bora Bora

Weather below the equator

We just went thru our first cold front.   We had a week of cool weather and rain.  I actually wrore my  jeans.  There were several odd things about this front.  First is it was a high pressure cold front. It may not be so odd because high pressure in the southern hemisphere is a counter clockwise rotation.  The high was to our southeast brining up cold air from the south.  How wired does that sound.

Then a low pressure developed to our Southeast causing the weather to warm up as the wind was out of the North., but still rainy.

The low will move Southeast and the wind will be out of the west Northwest, so much for the trade winds. The sad thing is we are to head to Suwarrow which is,  you guessed it,  too the west northwest around 600 miles.