Kite surfing outside our digs

In Bora Bora we get to watch kite surfing almost continuously. Our patio opens to a popular tiny beach where kite surfers launch and return. I am very tempted to give it a try but not this trip. My possible broken toe makes me hesitate to try it till it is healed. I ask a couple of women who spend the day learning how to do it if it takes a lot of arm strength. They say no, it just takes knowing how to fly a kite. One day...
photo #1. One of the regular kite surfing guys. We saw him several days. He had just launched.
The water is only about 50 feet from our bed and it is very soothing to hear the sounds of the surf. There is a circling reef with white breakers in the distance and we often see people walk across to the reef which is high enough to grow a few trees. Fishermen and women walk across with back packs but we never see any catch. Maybe it is inside one of the packs.
photo #2 This feature was dominant when I was driven around the island.
Scuba diving here shows me more types of coral.
photo #3, #4, and #5 Show different types of coral. Two disc of coral sit on top of a third type. These disc of coral only move when the sea or a diver moves them.
photos #6 and #7 are of me holding a creature that has very sticky parts on it's underside. It does not get sticky till the animal has been touching you a few seconds. When you pull your hand away the carpet-like tentacles stretch out pretty far. I don't know the name of

this animal. If you do please tell me. I think it is 'ananas sea cucumber'.
photo #8. Is some more coral but there is a clam inclusion. These clams look just like the giant ones in Australia. I don't know if they are the same species, maybe not since I haven't seen any really big ones here. This one was about two inches wide. I have seen them here about eight inches. The giant clams get to be 1.2 meters or 4 feet long. I have seen them here in many colors, lavender, green, brown, and blue like the one here.
photo # 9 This is a one inch or so long sea shell that I never saw before I came here. It has a notched opening. I picked up three different ones before I realized that they all had the same "broken bit". I don't know why it would grow with such a notch.
photo #10 More coral, some damage from a diver or storm is at lower left.
photo #11 Chick and I play what it probably the first game of Combat

Commander played on Bora Bora.
While snorkeling near our patio, I see curious rock looking creatures with what looks like a trap door. Very interesting.
I go out on a dive which is nice enough. Don't see anything too unusual but do find a shell floating along the bottom. It reminds me of those trapdoor rocks. Sure enough it is a shell with a distorted sort of cubic shape. One side is larger and flatter and that is where it attaches itself to a rock. It is big enough to hold an orange. Now that I see the creature in better detail I can recognize it more readily when I snorkel. There is a current so it is not comfortable to snorkel amongst the trapdoor shells but I go in with my camera so I can get a couple of shots to show you.
photo #12 A camouflaged sea shell that looks like a trap door. I do not know its name.
photo # 13 This type of thatched hut is popular in this part of the world. Many of them are rentals by the night. You can roll out of bed and into the sea with no effort.
The last evening on Bora Bora we walk to the public beach where we watch the sunset together. It is lovely. I still have my flower attached to my glasses.