Moorea, French Polynesia

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		Moorea is only a 12mi (19km) ferry ride from Tahiti, and it is 3 times the size of Rarotonga. It is an older island, which is why the lagoon around it is larger and has more channels.

	The two islands (Motus) and beach in front of Club Med, where we stayed	Looking out to the two bays on the island from up on Belvedere Lookout

The 9 of us went on an island safari	Closeup of the western bay	Steep mountain peak, was used as the Bali Hai in the movie "South Pacific"

Various mountains on the island, it's pretty damn rugged

	Deeper in the island, on a vanilla and banana farm	The nine of us stood in the back of that safari truck for our trip over the island

Big statue we stopped at	I don't know why there was a propeller hanging from that tree	A very nice looking hotel that we did not stay in

This is Club Med, where we stayed	The Beachcomber, where the other group stayed	Watched the sun set every day here, too

		Looking towards one of the islands in front of the hotel

Small island on the reef	About 40 people from our group went on a dive trip together	Island of Tahiti from a hill on Moorea

Tahiti from the ferry

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