Oh, beautiful Bora Bora!
Showing posts with label South Pacific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Pacific. Show all posts
July 03, 2016
French Polynesian 2016
And then there is the water - how many shades of blue can the eye see?
Oh, beautiful Bora Bora!
Oh, beautiful Bora Bora!
July 02, 2016
Return to French Polynesia 2016
When our trip in 2014 got interrupted with me breaking my neck, our comment even in the hospital was 'we have to come back and finish our trip'.
So we went back for the month of May 2016. And what's the most common thing there?
Sunrises and sunsets! In no particular order...
So we went back for the month of May 2016. And what's the most common thing there?
Sunrises and sunsets! In no particular order...
May 26, 2015
Anniversary...
The past week has been spent celebrating my good fortune from one year ago during our trip to Moorea and Bora Bora when I broke my neck in the French Polynesia.
Before...
After...
As soon as I had excellent medical care and the operation in Tahiti where they put in a titanium plate attaching my C5 and C6 vertebrate to the spine I was on the road to recovery. One year later things are pretty well back to normal (sort of) but definitely WAY better than it could have been!
Before...
After...
As soon as I had excellent medical care and the operation in Tahiti where they put in a titanium plate attaching my C5 and C6 vertebrate to the spine I was on the road to recovery. One year later things are pretty well back to normal (sort of) but definitely WAY better than it could have been!
August 06, 2014
French Polynesia update 2
To go back in time... Bora Bora was amazing. So much beauty it hurt your eyes!
Some photos to share:
Ah, the islands from the air!
Flying away from Moorea with its two deep bays.
Over Huahine.
Onto Bora Bora.
Lei'ed on arrival.
And the boat to take you to your hotel as the airport is on the atoll.
Another InterContinental for us.
Our beach.
Still collecting sunsets. Looking west.
Looking east. Our hotel is on a skinny peninsula so it was easy to get both views by just walking across the street.
Some photos to share:
Ah, the islands from the air!
Flying away from Moorea with its two deep bays.
Over Huahine.
Onto Bora Bora.
Lei'ed on arrival.
And the boat to take you to your hotel as the airport is on the atoll.
Another InterContinental for us.
Our beach.
Still collecting sunsets. Looking west.
Looking east. Our hotel is on a skinny peninsula so it was easy to get both views by just walking across the street.
August 04, 2014
French Polynesia update 1
Well, you may have noticed my posts while on holidays stopped pretty abruptly. On May 13th we flew to the island of Bora Bora and had three good days exploring it but on May 16th I had a freak accident and flipped on a hammock and broke my neck!
We spent five days icing the heck out of it (changing ice packs every two hours on my neck, shoulders, right hand, and left arm from the elbow down); then after consulting with the doctor there decided I wasn't getting any better so we had to fly back to Tahiti for an MRI. (The only hospital in the 120 islands of the French Polynesian.)
After a 45 minutes boat ride (in a wheelchair with a soft cervical collar on) to the Bora Bora airport, an hour flight to Tahiti, then an ambulance ride to the hospital I spent 5 hours in Emergency waiting for an MRI, and when I came out of the machine I was immediately put into a hard-shell cervical collar and told to stay horizontal until surgery.
One week after the accident, on May 23rd, I had a 5 hour operation to stabilize the C5 and C6 vertebrate that involved putting in a titanium plate to fuse the two vertebrate together. Thumbs up after the operation....
We spent five days icing the heck out of it (changing ice packs every two hours on my neck, shoulders, right hand, and left arm from the elbow down); then after consulting with the doctor there decided I wasn't getting any better so we had to fly back to Tahiti for an MRI. (The only hospital in the 120 islands of the French Polynesian.)
After a 45 minutes boat ride (in a wheelchair with a soft cervical collar on) to the Bora Bora airport, an hour flight to Tahiti, then an ambulance ride to the hospital I spent 5 hours in Emergency waiting for an MRI, and when I came out of the machine I was immediately put into a hard-shell cervical collar and told to stay horizontal until surgery.
One week after the accident, on May 23rd, I had a 5 hour operation to stabilize the C5 and C6 vertebrate that involved putting in a titanium plate to fuse the two vertebrate together. Thumbs up after the operation....
May 12, 2014
Tahiti 1
We took the ferry across The Sea of the Moon, the strait between Moorea and Tahiti. With just 21 km separating them it was a quick 30 minute catamaran ride. We spent the day in the capital city of Papeete just walking around and seeing the sights.
Approaching land...
The charming streets...
Approaching land...
And the famous year round indoor market called The Marche...
BUT the best thing we found.... For those who remember our trip to UK last spring when I took Dave on a street art tour through the streets of NE London.... Was that an international graffiti festival was in the midst of happening here! More street art pictures!
May 10, 2014
Moorea 5
My goal is to be on the beach to watch the sun set into the Pacific Ocean each night. So far, so good. Although some have been off the ferry travelling from a day in Tahiti back to our base in Moorea.
We had cloudy nights when we first arrived (good for a slow introduction in the daylight hours for our tender northern hides for the first couple of days) but you need some clouds around to give the sunset more contrast - see what I mean here...
The island of Moorea from the sea...
We had cloudy nights when we first arrived (good for a slow introduction in the daylight hours for our tender northern hides for the first couple of days) but you need some clouds around to give the sunset more contrast - see what I mean here...
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