Off the tee, on Friday 2nd August.

They have certain rules about which vans can pick you up from the hotel, so it made more sense to hire a car for the day. We headed off for the Jack Nicholas designed Green Pearl Golf Course. Duncan had brought his golf clubs, and I drove the cart since the course had lots of water and bunkers and I am a bit rusty. There were (I am informed) 9 holes with penalty areas.

 The front nine was quite flat because it is on the strip of land by the sea, then we passed through a tunnel onto the part built on the side of the volcanic cone.

 This was the highest point with 8 hairpin bends for me to negotiate with the cart going down.

The views out to sea were quite spectacular.

A very steep downhill!
We had lunch at the Golf Club (which meant that we just had a light meal in our room for tea.) and then set off for a drive around Moorea. Its about 60km all the way around. The idea was to stop and have a swim, however the Tahitians are not up with the play on Global warming, and all their houses are absolute waterfront, with no little reserve for us to stop at and go swimming. To be fair, on the other side of the road the land rises quite steeply up the old volcanic cone, but their houses would all be less than a metre above sealevel.
Once we had done that we turned around and drove back the other way - unfortunately hitting "rush hour" as the ferry from Papeete arrived with supplies and people who work on the larger island of Tahiti. There were 4 policemen on duty as pointsmen.