When the U.S. Navy abandoned Bora Bora at the conclusion of World War II it left behind a fine airstrip, now the island’s commercial airport, several batteries of shore artillery, a variety of bunkers, Quonset huts and the like, and 116 babies. Its personnel also took home memories of this Eden-like island and its attractive and eager young ladies. As young men will do, they talked up their memories and deeds, the word spread […]
Though we were anchored in this island’s immense lagoon for just two days it was one of my and the crews’ favorites. Entering the lagoon from the ocean was no easy task. The reef break at the pass is not a whole lot wider than Indigo. Midway through it’s necessary to make a hard turn to starboard, […]
We entered the protected lagoon surrounding the island by way of Passe Maire au Iriru (try saying that three times quickly), then cruised up to the head of scenic Baie Faaroa and anchored there. This is one of the very few bays anywhere in the islands that is the drainage basin for a navigable inland river. […]
Huahine , unusual among these islands, is split by a lagoon running across it on a more or less east-west axis. Near the west end is a small island within the lagoon. This geographic arrangement, aided by a salacious imagination, resembles vaguely an important part […]
Pete Cicchine and Chris Jensen arrived in Tahiti after a wearying flight from their and my boyhood home in Pensacola to join me for two weeks aboard Indigo. We have been friends since we were 11 years old, having done the pre-teen and teen years together in Myrtle Grove on the west side of town. […]