{"id":4417,"date":"2016-11-02T01:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T08:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2016-11-02T01:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T08:47:27","slug":"white-sand-daydreams-bora-bora-11012016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4417","title":{"rendered":"White Sand Daydreams \u2013 Bora Bora \u2013 [11\/01\/2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ap396-calendar-girl\"It takes an awful lotta clams to get to Bora Bora<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Warehouse 13, the Case of the Missing Elephant<\/em><\/p>\n

Bora Bora\u2026the name conjures paradise, and paradise it very nearly is. Mile upon mile of pure white sand that\u2019s wonderfully soft between your toes, and water so clear that you can see the bottom even when it\u2019s way deeper than you could ever hope to touch. Colours like that just don\u2019t seem to exist anywhere else.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t think these places exist anywhere except in postcards, storybooks and your imagination. But they do. Even when you\u2019re there you sometimes don\u2019t believe it, but they are real, they do exist.<\/p>\n

I have been lucky enough to set foot here before, but as always is the case, I was a very different person in a very different circumstance then. It was very early on in my tenure on the flagship; I had perhaps one world cruise under my belt, and that really was not much. I lacked a certain level of confidence, and I was definitely still the new kid on the block; never invited to team dinners on<\/em> the ship let alone for drinks off<\/em> the ship. So rather than feeling the sand under my feet, I usually stayed in.<\/p>\n

Today? Well, time changes everything. Today I finally went to Bloody Mary\u2019s \u2013 possibly the most famous restaurant in Bora Bora, Mary\u2019s has been frequented by a list of celebrities so long that they display it on two giant signs to either side of the main entrance: Carrie Underwood, Danny De Vito, the list seems almost endless.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a big<\/em> place; inside the floors are sand and the tables polished logs. They advertise the greatest cocktails in the world, and this time the hype is true. \u00a0One sip of my vanilla rum punch and my taste buds exploded in layers of flavour. Not strong, not enough to even get tipsy from, just blended to absolute perfection. And the food was just as perfect. This is one of those places you have to experience to believe.<\/p>\n

Once we\u2019d finished lunch we climbed into one of the open air buses to head to the beach. The shuttled buses are something of an experience in their own right, since there doesn\u2019t seem to be much in the way of speed limits in Bora Bora, and shocks on the buses are non-existent despite the rough roads. You feel a little bit like a cartoon character, bouncing around in the back of a bus, watching palm trees and ocean zip by at top speed.<\/p>\n

We were dropped off at the beach and \u2013 after walking nearly as far as we could before reaching rocks and turning back \u2013 picked a spot to set up for the day. Amras headed off to grab some bottled water, and I headed straight for the ocean.<\/p>\n

Stress, tension, exhaustion, serious thoughts, Mamma Ocean, take them away from your weary world-worn child, carry them from her and on the wings of the giant stingrays that swirl so close to her feet. Ground them into the coral and let your salt cleanse the past from her skin.<\/p>\n

For me, the ocean never fails to cure me.<\/p>\n

We spent at least half the day in the water, seeing how far out we could go while still touching bottom (a very long ways at it turned out), chasing tiny fish, trying to catch the perfect picture of one of those huge string rays. Eventually though we realized we had to emerge sometime, so we waded back out and spent the rest of the afternoon sipping vanilla milkshakes on the warm sand.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wanna go back<\/em><\/p>\n

Me neither<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe we could just not go back. I\u2019m sorry sir, I\u2019ve been injured, I\u2019m in a very luxurious hospital. Taking my medicine \u2013 medicinal rum punch right?<\/em><\/p>\n

Ha!<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think he\u2019d buy it though\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally we loaded ourselves back into the bus and bounced our way back to the ship, where both of us had to work. Even in paradise, one does have to \u2013 occasionally \u2013 work for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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