Friday 18th August to Friday 1st September 2017 We finally left fabulous French Polynesia after three months there, moving on west to the Cook Islands which are made up of 15 relatively small and widely spread-out islands scattered over thousands of miles of ocean. We were still undecided as we

Wednesday 9th to Friday 18th August Although we had officially checked out of French Polynesia we wanted to visit Maupiti, 28 miles west of Bora Bora, another beautiful volcanic island with a high central mountain surrounded by a lagoon but with an outer reef through which there was only one

Wednesday 2nd to Wednesday 9th August   We heard a lot of cruisers say that they were giving Bora Bora a miss as it is too overdeveloped, too touristy, spoiled, but we could see its dramatic, jagged profile from Taha’a and were keen to visit. Bora Bora is another of