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Me - either eating breakfast or sketching |
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"Mamas & Papas" and kids from the island |
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M/S Paul Gauguin from the tender (lifeboats used to transport from ship to island) |
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Raiatea Mall (more on that soon) This is a lily pond with fish |
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Most of the mall is joined huts - it was Sunday so they were closed |
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More flowers - hibiscus of every color, everywhere. |
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Another lily pond at the mall |
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The only building we saw marked with a Chinese name |
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Brady McKay & Pieter Meijers |
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Pieter Meijers Quartet with Brady McKay & Bob Leary |
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Alida Meijers - owner of Jazzdagen Tours - with the captain |
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Pieter Meijers and Ann Barnhart in the tender |
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Going to Motu Mahana, the ship behind us |
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Motu Mahana - owned by Radisson so they have food, drinks, kayaks, etc. available |
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Shopping - this is pretty much how the shopping was everywhere, natives with tables, selling carved shell jewelry. Beautiful stuff! |
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Warm, clean water - watch out for the coral |
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Pareo shop on the tour - with people who mainly spoke French |
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Bora Bora water - probably near Club Med |
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Les Gauguines are true island natives |
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Les Gauguines - the only Tahitian dance show we saw |
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Best beach - soft sand, you can walk out forever in the warm water and not be over your head |
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View thru the door (again) |
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Moorean water taxi/tender waiting hut |
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Spot where Capt. Cook landed on his first trip |
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Mountain used in the movie "South Pacific" to portray Bali Hi |
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Flower called "Scotchman's Purse" because it never opens |
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Sign at a temple being reconstructed |
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Temple walls - they were open air, not covered |
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Rock slab backrests, seating order by family heirarchy, facing the ancestors' mountan |
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Pool for cleansing before going into the temple |
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Rain forest tree - roots grow above ground |
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Moorea shopping - they have tents over the tables here, and great prices |
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Moorea thatched hut roof inside |
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M/S Paul Gauguin in Moorea |
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Another performance - next to last |
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Scene-stealing sunset.
Photo by Gary Rothrock (DixieCat) |
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part of Titan Hot Seven - they were too spread out to get the entire group in one shot |
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"Tattoosh" Paul Allen's (Microsoft) yacht - 11th largest in the world. There's a helicopter on the back, and a partially covered swimming pool |
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Part of a huge flower arrangement in the dining room |
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