Tahiti 2025, day 2

Today is one of two days I get to do some scuba diving.

I woke up early after a really nice night’s sleep. I needed the rest after two less than optimal nights of sleep.

I skipped breakfast and headed to Nemo’z Dive Shop.

As you can see from the map above, Moorea looks kind of like a bat? A bird? Our resort is located on the head of the bird. Nemo’z is on the top of the left wing.

It was a nice drive though there are dogs that lay along the side of the road and I’m stressed that they are going to dart in front of my car!

The Dive Shop is located in an abandoned resort, the Intercontinental. It has a super creepy abandoned, haunted vibe, but the dive shop was fine.

Seems The Intercontinental Moorea shut down during COVID and have had problems reopening.

Anyway, diving was amazing. The first dive took us outside of the reef and I got to see Lemon Sharks for the first time. These big guys were 9-12’ long. Just massive. We also saw a couple of black tip reef sharks and a white tip reef shark.

The second dive was around a big lava flow and we saw lots of sea turtles.

The guides were terrific and the other divers were fun. A really lovely morning of diving and spectacular views.

I made it back to Hilton and found Mike, Vicki and Darryl in the water snorkeling in front of our bungalow. Of course, I jumped in and snorkeled with them. Have I had enough ocean yet? Nope.

We headed to a local place for a late lunch. I had this:

This was raw Ahi with lime in coconut milk. It was beyond delicious.

It was now nap o’clock. Diving knocks it out of me and the full belly wasn’t helping. I did try Nitrox for my scuba tank air mixture this time and it supposedly helps with the dive fatigue. It may have helped some.

After hanging out in bed after waking from our nap we headed out to the balcony to watch the sunset.

Not too bad.

Still stuffed from dinner we decided to split a crepe and have some of the yummy chocolates Darryl got for us. Perfect dinner.

I’d guess we’ll be in bed by 8pm again tonight. Another early morning of diving for me tomorrow.

Thanks for following along!