February 9 - Fakarava, Tuamotu Islands (French Polynesia)
Up early and off to the fitness center. For some reason there was music playing quite loudly there and it wasn't particularly enjoyable music - at least for the average age of the passengers. Hope they get rid of that soon. Fakarava is a small atoll with no tours available. There are no banks or ATMs and only a couple of little souvenir stores, but there is cell service! We took the tender over around 10:00 am and just wandered around. We ran into Diana and Michael so we wandered together for a while. Church was still in session so it was pretty quiet. We could have rented bikes (even electric bikes or trikes) but decided to just walk. We saw 2 churches, a Mormon and Catholic, and of course beautiful flowers everywhere. At one point on the shore a man was feeding small sharks for the tourists' enjoyment. I figured they wouldn't be hungry for me, so I stepped in to get a picture. A bit further down the road we stopped fo...