French Polynesia - part 1

  • Rambutan & market Papeete
  • QE2 Papeete from hotel balcony
  • Papeete harbour front, roulottes
  • Aruanui 3 with whaleboats
  • Fakaravah atoll
  • Fakaravah dancing girl
  • Band @ Fakaravah
  • Impatient for the band to start
  • Inner lagoon coral heads
  • Whaleboat going ashore
  • Approaching Hakahau, Ua Pou
  • Breadfruit tree
  • Jungle fowl cock
  • Local pig
  • Carving in church
  • Most beautiful dancer
  • Drum
  • Preparing to go on
  • Scary! Kind of 'haka'
  • Airstrip!
  • Approaching Hakahetau, Ua Pou
  • Rocky Harbour
  • Banana Farmer
  • Aruanui 3 @ Taiohae, Nuku Hiva
  • Flame Tree, Taiohae
  • Mum's selling carvings & tapa
  • St Paul @ Notre Dame Cathedral
  • Wild Orchids
  • Sensitive plant, touch it and the leaves curl up
  • Welcome to viewpoint, Nuku Hiva
  • More dancing
  • Welcome dance
  • What fun
  • Interior, Nuku Hiva
  • Taipivai, Nuku Hiva
  • Local cargo, lifeline between villages
  • The most skilled crew
  • Well earned beer near Gaugin's grave
  • What is this flower?
  • Crew relaxing
  • Welcome dance
  • Making tapa (bark cloth)
  • Aphrodisiac bouquet
  • Welcome, again
  • Dancing