"Tikehau" Îles Tuamotu et Gambier by TemperatureWuss

The "Robinson's Island". This oval shaped atoll located some 300 kms to the northwest of Tahiti, about a dozen kilometers from Rangiroa, has a large pass and a series of islets, the largest of which at the south west of the atoll, 900 meters wide and inhabited.

Crystal Clear Warm Water

The ocean pounds against the coral reef that creates this tiny atol. The water flows to the inside of the atol in shallow tide pools, which heat the water to WARM, bathwater temperatures in some places.

Tikehau Dive

Scuba diving is peacful and uncrowded, especially in the Tuheiava pass, where the manta rays' dance alternates with the parades of shoals of barracuda, and tuna fish, not to mention the gray and the white-tipped sharks.