Tahiti, 2025 Day 3

We woke up around 5am after a long night’s sleep. We decided to go to the end of the overwater bungalow pier and watch the sunrise. It did not disappoint.

It’s another scuba day for me so I headed down to Nemo’z.

My dive buddy was a charming young guy from Atlanta. We had a blast diving and talking about diving.

The video above is from my first dive. We went to a place where the conditions must be just right for a good dive. They were despite the strong current we had to swim against for the first portion of the dive. We had a gray reef shark, a 3 meter lemon shark and a dozen or so black tip reef sharks swimming around us, and quite close to us. It was very cool.

We drifted with the current back to the boat and had several more black tip sharks circle us as we surfaced. Again, neat.

The second dive was a little less spectacular. A couple of turtles and lots and lots of fish. There was a giant trigger fish ( 2 1/2’ long?) that was crunching in the coral.

I was hungry by the time I got back to the resort so Mike and I headed to lunch at the little outdoor poolside restaurant. I had the fish burger again. Just as good the second time.

We went back to SAB Pearl Shop because Mike was experiencing FOMO and wanted his own Tahitian Pearl. Now all four of us have one.

We stopped by a grocery store to stock up on snacks then headed back to the room for a nap.

Sunset was lovely.

Dinner was wonderful! We had escargot for the first time. (Yum!) I had a delicious fish called Papio (the table agreed my next puppet should be named Papio Beef Cheeks, beef checks being another menu item.)

Darryl and Vicki treated us to dinner. Thank you!!

We headed back to the room and I had to run payroll. I didn’t think I’d make it though writing this blog but here I am at 9:15pm, an hour past our bedtime! 🙂

Thanks for following along!