‘Stuck’ in Paradise
“Lose yourself and find the key to paradise…” –Jimmy Buffett Cyclone season was soon upon us, so I relaxed into knowing we were too north for cyclones and shouldn’t be heading anywhere south or west for a while. We came upon a bay with a long righthander and a hollower left. There was a vacant […]
Day Trip to Takai’i
After making fast friends with Heifara & Siki, Blight & Isrin in a valley near Mami Faatiarau’s, Raiarii and I gladly accepted an invitation on an island tour. Well-versed in Marquesan culture, Blight brought the island to life recounting the history and legends that made each place special. First he brought us to a valley […]
Happy World Ocean’s Day!
Let us celebrate our Oceans, today and every day–bodies of water that sustain us, entertain us, and enrich our lives beyond measure!!
Food Foraging and Our Forgotten Bioregional Educations: What we don’t even know we don’t know
In the spirit of Thor and Liv Heyerdahl’s ‘Back to Nature’ adventure almost a hundred years earlier, I embraced my time in Marquesas as a chance to live a little closer to the Source. The relatively low populations and highly fertile soil make for lots of nature’s edibles to be foraged with permission from the […]
2,600 miles ends in a T-bone (not a steak!)
My apologies for the delay…had to pick up the pace over the last month in order to make it back towards ‘home base’ in order to catch a plane to Cali so I can be there when my nephew will be born in June! Seven passages over one month with a broken autopilot and a […]
and I thought I was Tough…
Reunited in the neighboring valley, we brought ashore some fish we’d caught for Mami Faatiarau, Maoni, and Georgina–the woman with whom they were staying. The goat and the puppy had come along too! They’d just returned from a morning of foraging in the mountains with a sac full of mangos, and were pulling a steaming […]
Quiet heros in the forgotten valley.
Mami Faatiarau is 79 years old. She lives in an isolated valley in the Marquesas Islands. Only a walking path connects this valley to the main village, but she doesn’t want to move to the more populated valley like the rest of her family. She and Maoni, her disabled adoptive son prefer to stay in […]
