Huahine

Huahine is retrospectively one of my favourite islands, wonderful landscapes and lovely inhabitants. Spending the days discovering the island, the local tourist-office representative was most friendly.

Extraordinary moments conversing with the local fishermen's women in charge of selling the freshly caught fish. Their kindness and sincerity with which they shared their concern about overfishing, their views on the central government in Tahiti, on their daily sales-schedule: starting by selling in the harbour then driving around the island in their "truck with -fish-in-the-back" delivering to the local community, a small scale balanced effort of catch-and-eat.

Drawing from the harbour:

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Title: Fishermen's woman of Huahine
Dry Pastel (60cm x 40cm)

Details

Fishermen's woman of Huahine is currently the 3rd most viewed artwork of the US 2010 summer- competition of Creative Divergents!

http://creativedivergents.com/999-fishermens-woman-huahine-harbour

Moorea

Just a 25 minute ferry ride from Tahiti, Moorea is a relaxing "weekend getaway" location for Tahitians, it could almost be considered to be an extension of the island of Tahiti.

Moorea means "yellow lizard" in Tahitian.














A fantastic artistic exchange on Moorea with Gilles Leguen and Maite Bouchard, both very kind and talented

Working with Gilles on a monumental made of driftwood and broken coral.

Works by Gilles LeGuen.







Abstract work by "Mineral" Maité Bouchard

We simply loved her company- her minerals-her tea&ginger- and of course her fantastic abstract works!

Tiki

Tiki's are ancient stone carvings preserved in Polynesia and Easter Island, they often serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites. Tiʻi refers to the legend of the first man, is made from red earth and associated with the origin of the procreative act.

Tahiti

Approach Tahiti Int. Airport Faa'a, a few days organising at the Fare Suisse Guesthouse, meeting lots of kind people, amongst others Seremaia Tuqiri, Fisheries Policy Officer -WWF South Pacific.

Travelling with a backpack

Backpacking through the vaste territory of French Polynesia starting at Tahiti, to Huahine, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Maupiti, Rangiroa and Fakarava.

Maeva Tahiti!

Maeva*Tahiti!
*(welcome)
In Māori mythology, Ika-tere or Ikatere is a fish god, the father of all the sea creatures including mermaids.On my way !

Polynesian waters are inhabited by 800 fish species shared between the lagoon, the reef and the ocean. The clown-fish which lives in symbiosis with anemones, the picasso triggerfish, the yellow Moorish idol, the emperor angelfish which fantastic colours have made the reputation of South-sea islands. The most spectacular and famous member of the family is the giant Manta Ray that has a wingspan up to 7.5m across, but of course grey shark, the tiger shark or the large hammerhead shark, 20 dolphins and whales species,the green turtle that can reach up to 1.5m and 230kg weight.