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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Private picnic


I am scouring the internet for ideas and tips for our trip. Over and over again I am reading about this private picnic. It sounds SO fabulous!!! I am dying to do it!!! Here is a blurb from a forum on
http://www.tahiti-explorer.com/
posted by
LindaL

Keishi Tours does private motu picnics. Perroit did our tour when we did it in Nov. but his son and also a cousin, I believe, joined the business as well.
Our tour with Perroit went something like this-Perriot picked my husband and me up at the Vaitape dock in the morning in his motorized outrigger canoe. He immediately offered us cold Hinanos and we took off across the lagoon to see the dolphins.
Afterward we headed out past the reef to feed the sharks. The three of us jumped into the bluest water I have ever seen. It was like swimming in blue ink but it was clear as a bell. I figured that we were in about 60 feet of water but we could see the bottom perfectly. Perroit had a big bucket of fish and it seemed like the sharks arrived immediately. There were at least a dozen or so and they were everywhere. They were all around us, circling us and swimming beneath us. It was the most unbelieveable experience. I never once felt in danger, the sharks could not have cared less that we were there. It was just so incredible to get to view them up close like that. We brought our disposable underwater camera and Perriot took several pictures of us with the sharks swimming in the background.

After the shark feeding we headed back to the lagoon. We anchored in about 3 1/2 feet of water and got out to pet and feed the sting rays. There were several swimming around and we got great pictures of that as well.

We then went around the other side of the island to the coral gardens located on the backside of the Sofitel Motu. We snorkeled around for about 30 or 40 minutes. Great snorkeling.

Then we circled the island more as Perroit pointed out hotels and other points of interest to us. Eventually he stopped the boat about 300-400 yards from the shore of a motu, gave us a supply of cold beer and told us to enjoy "his pool" while he prepare our lunch. He drove his boat closer to the shore of the motu and we were left by ourselves in 2 1/2 feet of warm light blue water. About 30 minutes later he called us to the shore for lunch.

The table was set up in the water with an unbrella, white tablecloth and fresh flowers everwhere. There was a chilled bottle of champagne and real glasses, silverware, and china. None of the plastic stuff at Keishi, no way. He gave us both flower leis and begain serving us lunch. I don't think I can remember all the food, we had so much, but I know we had salad, poission cru, steak, fish, lobster, shrimp, potatoes, and bread all grilled on the grill set up in the water next to our table (except the salad and poission cru, of course). The food was fabulous and we had the most incredible view of Bora Bora in front of us. Beneath us, tiny fish were circling our legs waiting for bread crumbs to fall in the water. This may have been the happiest moment of my entire life up 'till now. I really can't think of anything that tops that moment. I was in heaven.

After lunch we did almost another complete circle around the island before we were taken back to the dock. It was a wonderful experience and what makes it so great is how genuine Perroit is. He is a wonderful man with the most engaging smile I've seen. He really loves what he does and seems to genuinely enjoy meeting people and showing them his island. I think he really is what Polynesia is all about.

1 comments:

Hilary said...

Well that doesn't sound romatic at all... swimming in crystal clear water feeding sharks, petting sting rays, awesome lunch in the South Pacific. Count me out.
Actually I'm so jealous.