Christmas in the South Pacific – Tahiti for the holidays

SO WHAT IS LIKE TO HAVE CHRISTMAS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC?

That is a difficult question to answer???
It is certainly a lot warmer from where we started out, England. But a lot further from family and friends. It seems most things in life are a compromise, and the ‘cruisers life’ is no exception to the rule.

SO HOW DO CRUISERS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

Well you have a couple of choices.
1. You can leave your boat and fly home for Christmas. My humans have done that one more than once.
2. You can join an organized event. My humans did that when they were working in Shelter Bay Marina, Panama.
3. You can have a private celebration on the boat. My humans did that in the Berry Islands of the Bahamas and used an internet connection to share with family and friends.
4. You can get a couple of cruising friends to join you in a celebration. The humans did this in the Eastern Caribbean and again here in the South Pacific. 5. Do not celebrate Christmas at all. They call these guys Grinches.

BUT YOU HAVE ALL CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS ALREADY

I guess it is a bit late to be talking about Christmas. My only excuse is we are so close to the date line. While most of you are counting down into a New Year at midnight, the sun of that very same day, will just be rising up over the horizon. We will not be doing any count downs until much much later.

SPEAKING OF NEW YEARS

The humans look set to drag we over to the island of Moorea for a change to scenery. They also want to do some reconnaissance for a family visit maybe next year. So we escape the bight lights of the city (Papeete, Tahiti) for the fertile mountains and pristine reefs of Moorea for New Years eve.

Special thanks go out to:
John and Debbie on s/v Bella Nave for suggesting a great anchorage to have Christmas in Tahiti, Lauie and Sue on s/v Lamitsu for hosting Christmas and boxing day meals, and Bob and Lesley on s/v Moon Rebel for joining in and making everything more fun.

P.S. We got some internet here in Tahiti. We were able to upload photos and video onto the older blogs. So if you want to SEE rather than just hear what we have been up to, have a look back.