{"id":15160,"date":"2025-10-04T21:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:44:49","slug":"atw-1-day-15-moorea-french-polynesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/04\/atw-1-day-15-moorea-french-polynesia\/","title":{"rendered":"ATW-1 Day 15: Mo’orea, French Polynesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mo’orea from the Carnival Luminosa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mo\u2019orea is a place I have never been. Never even heard of it. But I have now been there. I can check off an item that never appeared on my bucket list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a dramatic island. It looks like the setting for Mutiny on the Bounty<\/em> – jagged mountain peaks, pristine beaches. I learned that, in fact, it was the setting for one of the Bounty<\/em> movies. But that dramatic beauty and that bit of movie trivia seem to be just about the only things that make the island interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no pier for a large ship in Mo\u2019orea so we anchored in a cove and tendered to shore. Which Marlene and I did after a leisurely breakfast on board the ship. But the port was just a place where jewelry and souvenir trinkets were being hawked. This area is famous for pearls so there was an abundant selection of pearl jewelry. I could have gotten a bottle opener adorned with two pearls. I passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marlene in Mo’oraa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Church altar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Island band<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The port also featured a small island band, some dancers and, surprisingly, a church. After viewing all of those Marlene said \u201clet\u2019s walk into town.\u201d To which I relied \u201cthis IS the town.\u201d We walked a few hundred yards down the road and found a pizza place, a couple of small shops and a supermarket that wasn\u2019t very super. We were back on board in time for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dancers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Luminosa <\/em>from land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After lunch I blogged while Marlene spun some slots. Then we played cards and she took 3 to my 1. As it was October 1 I backed up my laptop\u2019s hard drive in the evening. Then lost some money in the casino. Down $750.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading back to the ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mo’orea at dusk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mo\u2019orea is a place I have never been. Never even heard of it. But I have now been there. I can check off an item that never appeared on my bucket list. It is a dramatic island. It looks like the setting for Mutiny on the Bounty – jagged mountain peaks, pristine beaches. I learned … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121,131,114,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atw","category-atw-1","category-cruise","category-pacific-ocean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}