Enhance your vacation with the following experience:

Canoe Excursion & Motu Picnic Upon boarding the boat, your skipper will go through the checklist of what to bring with you: Towel, snorkel, mask, fins and reef walkers (thick rubber soled underwater shoes). Coast through the clear Polynesian waters to meet the sting rays. Look off to the side of the boat and you'll know when you've reached your destination. Known as the most graceful animals of the sea, these enormous creatures will glide with elegance past your boat again and again. Their fluid movement will make you think they are flying under water. Put your reef walkers on, and when the guide gives you the green light, jump in! They swim all around you. Your skipper teaches you how to touch them. Kiss one of these curious giants encircling you, and its wings actually flap rapidly with approval, creating quite a splash!

More on Sting Rays: Sting rays have a 'disc' span (wing span) of about 3 feet. They are also more intelligent than sharks. Plankton is one of their favorite foods, but they eat small fish and crustaceans as well. Because they are bottom feeders, their nostrils, mouth, and gill slits are located on the underside of their bodies. The ray uses its gills to eat by sucking water in through them. This allows plankton to remain in its mouth while water is pumped out. Then, the plankton are channeled into the ray's stomach to be digested. Rays reproduce between May and October. When they reach about 10" in length they sexually mature. Female rays give birth to two or three pups per litter. Rays learn to evade predators by spending much of their time on the sandy bottom, flapping their wings to throw sand on their bodies.

Return to your boat so the skipper can take you to a private motu (islet) for your picnic. Jump in and snorkel the turquoise waters, while you wait for the crew to make you a tasty spread. Feast on the local favorite dishes as the multi-talented crew play their ukuleles.

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