Our Honeymoon Twelve days in French Polynesia spread over three islands

~ day 6: Manihi ~
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Once again, we woke up to a beautiful and bright sunrise. At 8:00am we met with Thierry and Nico for our morning dive - a Manta Ray dive! The mantas get cleaned every morning at the same spot so we were quite lucky today as we saw 7 or 8 mantas. What beautiful creatures they are.

cheryll

a beautiful manta

mantas in chase

 

lionfish

school of fish

 

Aquanuts' Peanut Gallery

nico

cheryll

jeff

thierry

Then at 10:00am we went for a second dive…with the sharks. We saw grey and black tip sharks as well as a rare Leaf Fish. After the dive, Thierry asked us a favor to pose for some scuba shots to put on their website. We thought it would be fun so we did…

'posing' for the website

nico, jeff, cheryll, thierry

We then had lunch and did some snorkeling right outside of our bungalow. The fish here are very friendly and are not afraid of people AT ALL. We then read for about 2 hours on our deck, fed more fish, and for the second time, attracted a reef shark once again. We're not sure if the shark ate a fish this time though…

jeff under the coffee table of our bungalow

In the late afternoon, we packed our bags then went to the bar for some drinks. We ended up having cocktails with Thierry and Nico for over an hour, chit chatting mainly about humiliating experiences in life (i.e. Thierry's stag parties and French Naval stories). All very entertaining. What was really nice was he downloaded all the pictures he took from diving today onto our memory card, so we now have some gorgeous shots, especially of the mantas.

We then had dinner and it just so happened that all the guests at the hotel were having dinner at the same time - all 16 of us. That's what we love about this place. Manihi is VERY quiet and VERY remote with VERY few people.

Of course, after the dinner we did the usual and watched more stars until we both fell asleep on our lounge chairs underneath the beautiful starlit sky.

onto day 7...