1000places > PAPEETE, TAHITI - During our first night onboard the Amazing Grace, while still in port, we sat on the aft deck and watched the moon over Papeete.
1000places > PAPEETE, TAHITI - Everything is colorful in Tahiti - including the Chinese satellite tracking ship (we preferred to think of it as the "spy ship") that was docked in the Papeete harbor.
1000places > MOOREA, POLYNESIA - We boarded the launch to head ashore to the small village of Pao Pao.
1000places > AMAZING GRACE (somewhere in the South Seas) - One of the most enjoyable aspects of a trip aboard a Windjammer vessel is that the sailing (or motoring in the case of the Amazing Grace) takes place at night, so when dawn breaks the next morning, a new island awaits.
1000places > BORA BORA, POLYNESIA - As at several of the other islands, we visited Bora Bora twice during our South Seas adventure, once aboard the Amazing Grace, the other time on our own.
1000places > BORA BORA, POLYNESIA - Our first walk along the island's only road (it runs completely around the perimeter) brought us to this colorful juxtiposition of different boating vessels.
1000places > BORA BORA, POLYNESIA - Two young Polynesian boys had watched our ship (behind them) steam into the harbor.  Now as we disembarked, they flashed us the two-fingered Tahitian sign for "welcome."
1000places > MOOREA, POLYNESIA - The Amazing Grace pulls into Cook's Bay.  Cook visited Moorea in 1769 but actually docked in a bay around the point from here, called Opunohu Bay.
1000places > AMAZING GRACE in POLYNESIA - Jorge, our Amazing Grace captain posed with the two lead dancers.  (Note: The "tongue out" pose is a traditional sign of Polynesian friendliness.)
PAPEETE, TAHITI - During our first night onboard the Amazing Grace, while still in port, we sat on the aft deck and watched the moon over Papeete.

1000places > PAPEETE, TAHITI - During our first night onboard the Amazing Grace, while still in port, we sat on the aft deck and watched the moon over Papeete.
PAPEETE, TAHITI - During our first night onboard the Amazing Grace, while still in port, we sat on the aft deck and watched the moon over Papeete.

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