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| Jim Markowich | profile | all galleries >> Society Islands (April-May 2004) >> Moorea (May 5-8, 2004) | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| Moorea is the most exceptional of the islands. Its knife-edge mountains are visually irresistable, and the twin bays on the north shore are sublime -- especially Opunohu Bay, which has almost completely escaped development. The views from Belvedere, overlooking the bays and the mountains, can knock the speech right out of your throat... or something like that. |
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 Close-up of waterlily |
 Cook's Bay a nicely designed hotel complex, currently (temporarily?) abandoned |
 pineapples, propane and dog food at the Mobil station, Cook's Bay |
 fresh egg The owner of the Motel Albert gave us a just-laid egg as we came back from our food-shopping at the gas station. Roosters and hens were EVERYWHERE in French Polynesia. Roosters don't just crow at dawn, either. They crow whenever the hell they feel like it, which sometimes means at any hour of the night. |
 dinner Yes sir, we were really living it up whenever dinnertime rolled around. Nothing but the best; the most extravagant. Money was no object. |
 pineapple plantation |
 inland scene |
 Moorea's mountains More mountains and foliage -- sorry. We just couldn't stop. |
 see why? |
 fallen blossom, fallen leaves... |
 fallen leaves |
 fallen mimosa blossom |
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