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Travel Blogs from Huahine
Island hopping first stop - Huahine
Our first flight on the Tahiti Pass was to Huahine island, and despite several accidental attempts to board a flight back to New Zealand we eventually found ourselves up in the air between Tahiti and Mo'orea. The coral reefs that encircle all the islands are best viewed from the air as you can really see the colour of the sea change inside the …
...the real polynesian life ...
... 3 on Huahine we picked our bikes and cycled off to explore the Southern island. We did not get too far until we arrived at the Atelier of the local Artist who makes his own Pareos. A long talk later we both were in love with one we had found and ....well Maria was giving a show to the other visitors: how to tie a Pareo. See some of the 101 possibilities (at least it felt like many more!). Quiet some laughs later we left our new purchases there and cycled on to ...
You Can't Stop the Music
... we watched them compete. The theme was independence and learning from our ancestors. To describe the dancing is nearly impossible and the drumming behind it is amazing. You may be overloaded videos with Tamure ...
Nao Nao to Faaroa Bay
... as it is falling apart) and headed on a walk through what was once a botanical garden. We walked past banana trees, lots of bright red & pink gingers, bird of paradise plants – we were becoming experts at taking macro photo’s of flowers! Pretty overgrown but a nice place to walk through. A nice little stream runs through some of the pathways and it was so hot & steamy. On the way back down the river we dipped our shirts in the water ...
Open water sailing to Huahine
... cardinal marks the reef to the south. There are leading marks here which are a little hard to spot on point Matapiri but we stayed on our heading of 114° Magnetic and soon found the leads which took us past the main town of Fare (the GPS waypoint is centre of the pass S16°42’.491 W151°02’.850). We decided to keep going toward the southern end of the island – Avea Bay which is reportedly beautiful and a further 7nm from Fare. We headed down the west ...