Since Bora Bora was exactly as advertised…it’s awesome… we decided to spend the night and stay here for another day!  We woke up pretty early in order to beat the tour boats and headed over to a spot that the charter people told us about where there are apparently Manta rays.  I’ve seen them in an aquarium, but it’s nothing like seeing them down there in the water with you.  We had one even get a little curious about us and swim up to check us out.  They’re such graceful critters.  I’m sad that I’m not better at freediving and couldn’t really get deep enough in the water to get a picture of them properly. I’ll have to practice up and go back and try again!

We kept looking for the Mantas and didn’t see them.  Eventually we motored back over to the start of the reef to try again before we gave up.  There they were! 🙂