Oct 13, 2009 - RAIATEA and TAHA'A

Raiatea and Taha'a (easy for them to say) After a short overnight transit, we arrived at Raiatea…you can actually make out Bora Bora from here in the haze on the distant horizon. ... Raiatea and its smaller companion island Taha’a are enclosed by a singular barrier reef. ... Raiatea has nowhere near the beauty and charm of Moorea or Bora Bora; but, the day as it developed it turned into another one of those OMG days because of what we experienced. ... Finally as the day came to an end, we motored back to Raiatea, back to the ship’s pier and bid a fond farewell to French Polynesia as we began our two day journey to Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands. ...