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| First sight of Moorea just 20 minutes across from Tahiti Moorea's pace of life is much slower than Tahiti's. |
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| First church on Moorea |
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| Land crabs - a delicacy! |
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| But not in their natural state. |
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| They are captured and ...... |
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| Put in cages and fed coconut meat for a month. Then they are delicious said our guide. |
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| The mountain shown on all French Polynesian money. |
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| Discovery Bay |
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| Red, white and blue - French, of course. |
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| Another view of the bay. |
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| A dreadfully fat man who took 5 minutes to get on the bus, each time. And, was grumpy!!! |
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| An artists recreation of the stone structure in the woods. |
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| Our tour bus - typical decoration. |
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| Joe, our guide and driver, making a plate from leaves. |
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| Squeezing hair and skin oil from a wild ginger plant. |
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| One of the carvings at the agricultural school |
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| Bamboo, larger in diameter than my hand! |
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| A baby pineapple plant, ready for the plantation. |
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| ylang ylang growing wild everywhere |
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| Our "time share" home for 4 months - deck 4, forward |
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| Private estate. |
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| Breadfruit - Captain Bligh went to Tahiti to get breadfruit to take to the Caribbean as cheap food for the slaves on the plantations there. His crew mutinied, set him adrift, he survived, came back and got breadfruit but the slaves would not eat it. |
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| Tahiti in the background. |
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| Bungalows at the Sofitel Hotel. |
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| Beautiful wall. |
