Moorea

Papeete, the main city in Tahiti is an interesting city. We take a 20 min bus ride in to town to explore and visit the local market, and visit the marine stores of course. I got a tattoo on my leg calf to celebrate sailing over equator and to Tahiti.
We were having lunch on a park bench when a very large polynesian man sat on the other end of the bench and the back of the bench started to collapse tipping us back. His family started laughing and he started laughing and then we were all laughing, no harm done.
We also took long walks up into the hills to see how the rich lived. The poor seemed to often live in shacks on the waterfront. ( In the old days s..t runs downhill was why the rich lived up high.)
The last day there got very windy making for a restless night and wet dingy rides. After almost 2 weeks here It was time to leave. We joined the sail over to Moorea with the 'puddle jump' sailing rendezvous. But we left 1.5 hours earlier as we knew it was a small anchorage at Moorea. The fast Catarmarins caught up to us as we entered the pass. It was blowing 30+ knots all the way across. We anchored behind the reef in a 20 boat anchorage that soon held 50 boats as they all came in and anchored way to close.
The next day they had a tradional polynesian lunch and some games for everyone. We entered the outrigger canoe races. Each canoe had 2 polynesian paddlers and four of us sailors. Six races of 4 canoes each was done. We won our heat and every heat had one canoe tip over. ( the trick is to keep your weight towards the outrigger) We also did the banana carrying race and I got in front because the 2 guys in front of me slipped and fell so I won my heat, but was still way behind the times of the young guys in the other heats.
After 2 days here we moved to the head of Opunohu bay partly to get away from all the boats. We had one large catamaran resting against us when the wind died and he had to move as we were there first. There was lots of this happening.
These are super anchorages with hight rock peaks all around and these are considered some of the most beatuiful anchorages in the world. We did a cycle trip down the island a bit and then moved the boat over to cooks bay for a change and in a day or two will head over to Huahine island about 90 miles away. Cooks bay is a lot more commercilized than the quite bay we were in. While typing this we are listening to a amplified music festival coming of the beach with lots of nice music and even some Elvis thrown in.