We did surf a little reef break at Haapiti, and we had great fun scurfing on Garry’s bundy-bear mini mal, before heading up to Opunohu and Cook Bays. We hired a scooter and circumnavigated Morea, experiencing unrivalled views and the most delicious vanilla, and gardenia ice-cream at the Agricultural School. We dropped in to so many pearl outlets, and were lucky enough to have them all to ourselves and the full attention of the proprietors, and got to handle and try on many of the beautiful gems ranging through white, gold, caramel, brown, iridescent silvery blues, in countless settings before settling on a very masculine boar tusk set with two greeny black pearls on a leather thong, for Garry, which was very island chieftain and for me a huge forest green drop in a setting with golden Tahiti sand in it. It was a lot of fun having a thorough search for the beautiful souvenirs we finally found, and it was a very pleasant sales environment, many of the outlets were right on the shore among coconut groves.