Little Lolly's Small Adventures: Scenic drive and scuba diving.

This morning we were woken up early by a cockerel crowing. We weren't impressed and found it hard to drop off back to sleep.

Our new feathered friends popped by and soon discovered it was our breakfast time. We couldn't let our 'guests' leave empty handed so we threw them some bread crumbs again with mum showing them 'how it is done'.

We had some time on our hands before going scuba diving so we decided to head almost half way around the island to Belvedere Lookout in the mountains.

The road off into the mountains was a good paved road to the viewpoint, narrow and winding and the views were spectacular. The viewpoint in the mountains looked out towards the coastline with the jagged outline of Mt Rotui rising up and separating Cook's Bay and 'Ōpūnohu Bay. The vegetation was lush and almost hiding the pineapple plantations on the sides of valleys. We decided to divert off the main paved road and continue towards Piha'ena, keeping Mt Rotui to our left. The road was unpaved, wet and very muddy because of morning rainfall. We found our innards getting a massage as we bumped along the road. I found it quite funny really. We re-joined the main road at the end of 'Ōpūnohu Bay and continued around Mt Rotui along the coastline to Cook's Bay and then on to Moorea Fun Dive.

We were given a warm welcome when we arrived at Moorea Fun Dive which is a family run business. We were soon dressed in wet suits and given air tanks and headed out to the boat anchored just off the beach. Along with a few other people, we were taken to a point along the edge of the reef for the dive. Water temperature was a lovely 29℃ at the surface and we went down to about 18 to 20m. We ended up enjoying the dive so much that we have booked another 2 dives for tomorrow, back to back.

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