Decover e des raies avec Serge

On Moorea directions are easy. It's always either left or right (there's only one road).The day before yesterday we turned left, and a sign saying "Decover e des raies" caught our attention. We parted with 6000 pacific francs and made a date to meet our guide Serge the next day.
Serge hasn't worn shoes on in 10 years and he only puts on a t-shirt for breakfast, he is an overly brown french man who smokes far too much but lives a happy life in paradise (and you can tell by his manner). He spends his days taking visitors to see the lagoons sting rays.
Chris jumps out of the speedboat onto a shallow part of the lagoon and I follow narrowly missing a gigantic ray glidding beneath me. Sting rays are like cats, they brush past your legs a few times, then slide right up your chest and poke their faces at your chin. Their wide eyes say "hey where's my fish!!".
It's increadible how friendly they are, how soft they feel and how they like to be patted like a domestic pet.
Sometimes they nudge you with their nose to get your attention, and one accidentally sucked my finger! (It was gummy, kind of like putting your finger in an old persons mouth).
Some local kids swam near us and started to make too much noise, so Serge got rid of them by pouring a bucket of blood into the water to attract the sharks - it worked!
We also had a hilarious lesson in sea cucumber defense mechanism. When removed from the water they eject a stringy white goooo which sticks to you like superglue. After ten minutes of trying to remove it, Serge (who's been wetting himself watching us) told us to grab a handful of sand to rub it off.
It was one of the coolest wildlife things we've done and will stick in our minds for years.