Special Delivery: 400 lbs of fruit for Puka Puka
Note** This story, from last year’s circle of French Polynesia, was too good not to share, despite happening nearly 9 months ago. My neck is healed and I’m back in Tahiti, catching up on some writing before heading to the boatyard…:) March 2012: And so the time had arrived. Cyclone season over, it was safe […]
Copra, the next olympic sport?
In the following weeks, I helped a local couple with their copra load, just to see what it entailed. I quickly understood why the local men were in such good shape…copra is their sport! Picking up bits of conversations in the village, I soon understood that the guys who worked in copra had a silent […]
The Great Shark in the Sky
Matai’s presence was commanding. He towered over me upon introduction by ‘Auntie Mary’, a local friend I’d made on the outskirts of the atoll. It wasn’t only his height and solid, muscular girth but his staid demeanor. He looked like a Puamoutu version of Hulk Hogan. “Matai is our local weatherman,” Auntie Mary said. “We […]
