A beautiful recreation of an underwater tiki garden can be found right by the Opunohu anchorage. Many Tahitian tikis were thrown in the ocean when the missionaries were converting the French Polynesia islands. In protest, many locals tossed their own tikis in shallow waters as a sign of respect and preservation. The tikis we found were placed underwater about 25 years ago. There are 8-12 tikis which can be found in less than 2 meters of water.
Not sure if we found all 12, but we found a lot. There has been a tremendous amount of growth around the tikis, even since our last visit. The boys humor me by posing with the tikis. This first one has 4 different faces.
This tiki had weird bubbly eyes. Well, probably not eyes, but that is what I am going with.
This tiki looked like a mermaid to me with her tail curling up around her. She had a lot of growth on the sunny side which had a lot of sea life.
This is a mother and daughter tiki or two sisters. Different interpretations.
My favorite tiki us almost unrecognizable. He has so much growth by his head that you can’t tell it is a king sitting on his thrown with his hands on his lap. Cameron is trying to look him in the eye to tell him it’s ok.
Is this a turtle tiki?
The boys decided they needed to stick their head inside the tiki.
Manutea Tahiti: Rotui Juice Factory and Distillery
Konis family loved, loved the Rotui mixed juice that I was buying so we decided to visit the factory located on Mo’orea. Manutea Tahiti aka Rotui Juice Factory and Distillery.
Unfortunately for us they were painting the actual distillery so we could not go in and see it. But fortunately for us their tasting room was open! So, we enjoyed sips of all their juices, wines, Champaign, liquors!
And man o man are they fabulous! We walked out with 2 boxes of goodies and had to rush back to Sugar Shack as we had invited a few cruiser friends over for Happy Hour. We had Rachel and Josh from Agape, Brian and Sue from Sea Rose, and Jan from Hannah.
In our next blog we visit Vaiare Bay. Did you miss our play time at Coco Beach on a private island? – check it out.
Events from this blog post occurred during the first week of August, 2021. Our blog posts run 10-12 weeks behind our adventures.