Articles about 'French Polynesia'

I've been wanting to put this one together for some time. French Polynesia Deux, is a highlight reel from Tahiti, and the rest of the Society Islands. We encountered beautiful reefs, wonderful people, and all sorts of fabulous sea life and seascapes. French Polynesia is one of our most favorite places we've visited.

After almost four months in the islands of French Polynesia we begin our passage to Tonga. Our plans are to make a number of stops along the way to break up the passage to be able to handle this with the crew we have on-board. This means we'll be doing 2-3 days passages at most before stopping and resting for a few days before moving on.

Sì! è giunto il momento per la raccolta di belle foto di Bora Bora! Yes, soon we will be sailing for the archipelago of Tonga, so just to wrap up our Bora Bora experience we present a photo album of our adventures in this beautiful place, grandi abbracci da tutti noi a bordo di Feelin' Good!!!

Ah Bora Bora...seriously, enough of that, what's it like? Well, up close the mountain which forms the centerpiece of the island's landscape is beautiful, and diverse, with several distinct profiles depending on which angle one is viewing, but "Matterhorn like"? Umm, in reality not so much, imagine one of those tasty Teuscher Matterhorn chocolates you can purchase by the box full on...

We've found a number of nice anchorages here in Bora Bora and this one is one of our favorites. It's close to a really nice beach restaurant (Bloody Mary's Bar) as well as to our favorite diving and snorkeling area. We've got good holding and nice wind to keep us cool for sleeping at night.

Bora Bora, just saying the name has a lingering effect as if the resonance of the words inside your head somehow trigger pheromones, and instantly the people around you will be drawn in, wanting to get closer so they can hear what comes next: you were there? What was it like? Well, actually I can't say just yet because, for now at least, we are viewing Bora Bora's Matterhorn-like peak...

Another amazing place to set anchor in beautiful French Polynesia. From our anchorage, we look west over the island resort of Le Tahaa across an aquamarine flat that stretches for a mile or more with the jagged peaks of our neighbor island, Bora Bora, in the distance. We arrived in a rain storm that lasted most of the first day but waking up the next morning to this view was worth it.

François, weathered and leathered, greets us warmly as if he has known us for years even though we are just now meeting for the very first time. His broad smile reveals a few missing teeth, but his eyes are vibrant, alert, framed by decades spent toiling under a tropical sun. He is anxious to show us his life's work, his family's vanilla farm is his passion; he is a man possessed and...