“The first experience can never be repeated. That first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touched a virginity of sense.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson This was Stevenson’s impression upon first alighting in the South Pacific in June of 1888. A lot has changed…or maybe not. Bora Bora is now…
Continue reading →Raitea is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. It’s name means “faraway heaven”, and rightly so with its green-carpeted mountains, cascading waterfalls, crystalline waters, and the beautiful Tiare apetahi, a white corolla-petaled flower so rare it can be grown no place else on earth. The port is in Utoroa,…
Continue reading →The famous Komodo Dragon, an endangered species of which there are only 3-5 thousand left in the wild, exists only within Komodo National Park, which covers nearly 1,000 square miles of Komodo Island and the two smaller islands of Rinca and Padar in Indonesia. The park was established in 1980 in order to protect its…
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