Bugster and Vaitape

Can you tell it's raining? It was pouring!!
A couple of days it rained, but usually at night and not for very long. The first few days we were there it was calm, but afterwards it was windy everyday. It wasn't bad because it was so warm, the breeze was nice. But it did churn up the water some and reduce the visibility.


We were up early almost everyday and this day watched the sun come up and got some great pics (or maybe is this sundown? whatever). The island shuts down early and everything pretty much closed around 10PM so we were early to bed every night (insert dirty honeymoon joke here) and up early in the morn.

One day we rented a "bugster" for 4 hours and toured around the island. The floor of this coconut forest was full of holes inhabited by crabs! Apparently you can eat the crabs if you feed them a diet of coconut for a month, to clear out their systems i guess? We saw these crabs holes all over the island.
Suds just can't let a dirt road go by without seeing where it leads. This one went nowhere (shocker) but that didn't stop him from exploring others. We went up one road and on the way back there was an electric gate closing us in!! We were in shock! We honked a few times and someone in the closest house beeped us out.


This is in the "big city" of Vaitape. There are 2 banks, post office, 2 supermarkets, snack huts and tons of pearl shops and pareo (sarong) shops. An open air mini bus left from the Novotel 3 times a day and took us to the town in about 15 minutes. We went there twice.
Bora Bora is so expensive its crazy. Breakfast in a little pattiserie was over $25 and to have our pics put onto a disc was $50 CAD. Even the bus was $10 return each.