Bora Bora- Michelles Waterproof Camera!

Bora Bora was sooo beautiful!

This is me and Hubby on the little porch of the over water bungalow!! It was a bit rainy when we first got there but you can't really tell


This is our little coffee table! you could open it up and feed the fish! hahaha =D

Gary feeding the fishies with bread early in the morning =) It doesn't open up all the way, thats as far as it opens


The 2nd day there we went on a snorkeling excursion to the most beautiful snorkeling sights in bora bora.. and wow, it was mind blowingly beautiful. The corals were so perfect.. the colors and structures are so amazing!! better than anything at any fish store or aquarium

A cool pink colored coral next to a neon blue clam!
its hard to see but there's a really pretty rainbow colored fish with black stripes
I'm swimming with lots of fishes! I felt like a mermaid ^__^ haha

There were so many fish! this area was called "the aquarium" hahaMe and hubby with our fishy friends!

On a small super pretty small "motu" (island) we walked across it in like 5 minutes! but there were a billion mosquitoess! haha


Pretty views from the beach at the Pearl Beach resort (where we stayed) hehe

The next day we went on a sharks and ray's excursion! We met a really nice lady from Germany who took this picture for us ^^

The sting rays were humungous!!! there were soo many of them! they swam right up and all around your body it was crazy!Gary pet one =)

We also swam with Black Tip Coral Reef sharks! they were hugee!!


They swam up super close! ahh


The last day, I took some night shots as well with my little canon elph.. iso 1600, and +2 exposure giving me aproximately a 1 second long exposure.. haha ^^ but they didn't come out as nice as gary's =) I'll hopefully post all the pictures up soon ^__^

Bora Bora

June 28 - July 1, 2009

Our last couple of days in Tahiti were spent in Bora Bora. Sadly my camera isn't very waterproof so I couldn't use it very much but my wifey has loads of pictures because of her waterproof casing. I'll let her do most of the uploads of our underwater adventures.

Heres what I have

We lived in an overwater bungalow which had little coffee tables that opened up so that you could feed fish :) They also had these porches were you can jump into the ocean anytime you wanted to.

Bridges to get to our overwater bungalow

My model wifey :)



Hammocks and palm trees :)

One night Michelle and I decided to do some night photography and surprisingly without a tripod or anything we got couple shots!



These stairs led to a coral nursery that the hotel supported. There motto was to create a hotel that blended into the natural environment and help sustain and recreate the environment they were part off. So they had tons of coral nurseries around which made for really cool snorkeling.




On our way to Tahiti, Air Tahiti Nui (the plane) gives each person a flower. Michelle and I decided to experiment with our rings and macro settings. And I leave you with that :)

Moorea part 2

June 26, 2009

After exploring Moorea on our own we took a 4x4 Safari tour with a tour company. One of the most exciting things we did at Moorea. Also one of my favorite photo sessions on our whole trip. We took a hike up the dead volcano which gave us an awesome view of the two bays.




Then we went down to a ceremonial site which had lots of chickens!



After visiting the ceremony site, we headed over to a pineapple, flower, and papaya plantation. However along the way we got a special guest that trailed us and ate pineapples!



Before reaching the pineapple/papaya plantation we stopped by a flower garden.




A real live orchid!! It was one of best surprises Michelle and I had. We both love orchids so seeing one in the wild was a treat.


My beautiful wife :)

So here's the pineapple papaya pictures. We both snickered when we heard that pineapple and papaya's grew together on the same island. (Michelle is the pineapple and I'm the papaya). Anyways we found that pineapples grew on bushes and papayas grew wayyy up in trees. It was pretty funny because people usually think pineapples grow on trees.


Papaya Tree

Pineapple growing out of the bush


Michelle and a pineapple :)

Papette and Moorea part 1

June 23, 2009

Our first stop of our trip was in Pappette, Tahiti. The place was beautiful but before we go on, heres my new model for life! My wifey Momo :)






Sooo beautiful :)

One of the first things we found out about Tahiti really fast was the cost of food. But good thing for us, they serve lots of bread!

Tahitian French Bread

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Happy Wife!

June 24, 2009
We stayed only one night in Papette so didn't get much a chance to explore the city. Next day we flew to Moorea (a neighboring island) and we got to do some amazing things there.



Goat Fish!!! (There were soo many of them)

Sea turtle rehabilitation center right in our hotel. He looks like a giant version of Squirt (from Nemo)
Hibiscus flowers, if you wear it on your left it means your married and if you wear it on your right it means your single and if you were on top of your head it means... ;P

June 25, 2009

One of the excursions we did was go biking around the island. I was soo suprised by my wife, man can she bike! we went about 1/3 of the island and then biked that same distance back to the hotel and then biked out again for lunch. We later found out that Tahitians burn wood/garbage. Yuk!
Makes a cool pictures but its actually yucky wood and garbage smoke. blah..


Below are some of my wifey's shots. She decided to learn how to use my camera and so i'll show case some of her work here too! There quite good :)

Our hotel in Moorea

The famed black Tahitian pearls

She has such a good eye :)


Moorea part 2 coming up!