Romantic Tour Saturday

So we signed up for something called "Romantic Boat Tour" for Saturday morning, not really knowing exactly what it was. One of the couples we went snorkeling with on Friday told us their friends had done it, and the guide videotaped them for a few hours. When they watched the video, it was mostly a tape of her boobs. So we weren't all that excited about it.


But when our guide showed up, he seemed really cool. He didn't have a video camera, and told us that he was going to take a bunch of pictures, similar to the wedding day pictures, just for our honeymoon. And it turned out to be a lot of fun. We started off with some pictures of us on the boat and various views behind us, either of the island or some of the surrounding motus.







Then we went to the coral garden, the same one we had visited on our own while we were at the Sofitel. We saw a bunch more fish this time. And again he gave us some bread, and was taking underwater pictures of us through the fish. So we do actually have some photos that you can see under the water and how cool it was with all the fish. And then, just at the end, there was this huge thing moving out of one of the rocks. Mike started poking me and pointing at it, and it kept slithering out more and more. When we got above water, I asked what it was, and he said "That's amore! Eel, that is." (Moray eel) He'd been waiting all vacation to use that one. It was probably about 4 feet long and swam out of the coral bed to another one. Our guide was too far ahead and didn't see it, so we don't have any pictures, but it was really cool.


We finished snorkeling, and then took the boat over to an area that had white sand on the ocean floor and was about 3 feet deep.

We jumped out, and then our guide showed us Amanda's favorite part. He pulled out a bottle of champagne, which we either didn't know or had forgotten was included, and then told us he had no glasses. So he pulled out a coconut, and showed us the coconut face and how to open it, and then did right in front of us. He gave each of us a half and we drank some of the coconut water inside (not coconut milk, you have to mix the skin up to get that). It wasn't very good, so we both dumped it out after a while. But then we got to fill it up with champagne! YAY!! That tasted much better. We now drank champagne out of a coconut while standing in the ocean that stretched everywhere we looked. Something that is a must-do if you come to the South Pacific.