Floundering

Yesterday we did schoolwork until lunchtime again. Then we drove to the famous Moorea Juice Factory. Pineapple plantations on the island sell their pineapples to the factory and they make different juice drinks. They showed us the factory and the conveyor belt with the boxes being pasteurized.  Cartons are used instead of jugs which are not refrigerated. The outside of each pineapple is used to make alcohol, the inside for juice. They make 1500 cases of juice a day and export juice, wine, champagne and liquor to other Polynesian islands and Hawaii.

After we had dinner Kylie, Dad and I went floundering. The flashlight kept going out but I managed to fix it. At the beginning we got a small one. We also saw a lot of crabs that had claws twice the size of their body. When we were about to turn back, I found an octopus that was crawling on the shoreline. It had long tentacles and polka dots. We helped it back into the water and watched it climb away. It was amazing!

Today, after we did schoolwork, we drove to the other side of the island to go shopping. On the way there we stopped and talked to some fishermen that had just came back from fishing. They were unloading HUGE mahi-mahi and tuna.  One of them even had caught a marlin!  We ended up arranging a fishing trip for tomorrow morning with one of the fishermen!