Sat/Sun, June 8 & 9 , 2013
For those planning to sail through French Polynesia, DO NOT accumulate laundry and expect to have it done at a laundromat on one of the islands! It is grotesquely expensive, not just in Bora Bora, but in Tahiti as well. We just spent $150 to do sheets, towels, and a small amount of clothes (at $30 per machine load - and their machines are TINY).
Another piece of advice, propane/butane is not available anywhere outside Tahiti, so check your cooking fuel levels and re-stock it before leaving Tahiti! We did not do this and are nearly out of cooking fuel. We are unsure whether to go BACK to Tahiti solely for this, or to just keep going forward and hope for the best.
Saturday night was some sort of party night here. There was a pool party at the marina, which had a DJ blasting tunes until 1:00am. Earlier in the afternoon, we had a couple 'party' boats pull up to moorings around us filled with younger people partying. The one boat was this rusty old piece of junk that had clearly been neglected (surprised it was able to sail offshore at all), which was blasting music with drunk people screaming (and had a naked baby - also partying). We watched their multiple failed attempts to catch a mooring ball and not drift into another boat. People were jumping off the boat to swim even before they were hooked (including naked baby - with no life jacket). This was very unusual as from what I've seen, marinas tend to be full of older people and families that frown on the noise from a boat just running their engine (our refrigerator is old and requires running of the engine every now and then to chill it - we have seen many of these frowns).
After a very lively Saturday, we got up and did some exploring in the dinghy around one of the motus surrounding the main island. 
We brought the snorkel gear and found a pretty good spot where the coral dropped off like a cliff into really deep water. It is around these sudden and significant changes in depth that you find the most sea life. The water was a bit foggy and the sky was cloudy, so the pictures didn't turn out too great. But we still had a good time and saw some pretty fish.
Some zebra fish. (I don't know if that is their name, I just made that up)
And an eel poking his head out.
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