Kong is back from Tahiti.

[Captain Kong]

After sailing from Avatoru, that little paradise in Rangiroa in the Tuomotus, a circle of tiny motus or atols around a lagoon about 100 miles across, we headed for Nuka Hiva in the Marquesas, it is in a small bay surrounded by volcanic mountains. We have been here several times and is again beautiful.
We were met on the jetty by the local `Warriors` doing their war dance.
I have a friend there who took us up the Mountains in his Land Rover, to two small abandoned villages up to four thousand years old by a race of people who are now extinct.
The island was later populated by the Polynesians around 900 years ago, and very nearly wiped out by the Spanish Seamen around 300 years ago with syphilis, measles, and other diseases they had never had.
The original people had two villages and built from the volcanic stones some weighing over two tons and transported over a long distance from the quarries. How they did it no one knows. One village would attack the other and then take a woman or child, then on the sacrifice stones would kill them and then eat them. They tasted better than the men .
Cannibals are still on the island. two years ago just after our last visit a German couple arrived in their yacht, and the man went ashore leaving the lady behind, He never came back, She raised the alarm and after a long search the remains of a fire was found in the jungle and human bones, He had been eaten. So it still goes on there.
There were lots of Tikis, stone carving of strange creatures, some looked like human/sea creatures, some looked as tho` they were wearing goggles, all showed them Naked with the dangly bits showing.
Most of my photos will not upload, No idea why,
Going back to the village was a bar with dancing girls in there doing the hula dancing , very nice, got the Movie but cannot put it on.
We sailed later that evening for San Diego in California six days away..
Cheers
Brian

[happy daze john in oz]

The statue in the second photo would bring tears to a glass eye for any ex UCL first class winger.

[John Pruden]

that's me on the end front row?? jp

[Captain Kong]

Hi Dave,
no sorry, it is a Shell, that they blow into, sounds like a bugle.
Cheers
Brian

[John Pruden]

Lovely inks/tatts) on the chap in the first photo,Brian. Is that a thick gourd he is holding in his hand or what?

Your adventures are so interesting,I may put Tahiti on my bucket list yet.
I haven't visited there except on the internet so can only post my'gourd' photo here.It has been seen previously,and yes,the caption is mine.

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somewhere to hang your coat Davey ?

[Captain Kong]

I think all those tattoos must have been painful to have, All over him.
Brian

[John Pruden]

wonder do they ever p.ss on their belly button when they are took short?? jp

[Keith Tindell]

I see on the BBC website photos of Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group of Islands, although uninhabited it is the worst polluted in the world, and some photos are pretty bad. Most of this rubbish is of plastic nature, and when I was at sea and everything consigned to Davy Jones locker, I don't think we had that amount of plastic in those days ( 1950-60s). Empty tinnies would not last long in that environment , but of course lots of timber, food waste , bottles , etc, thought that Brian Kong might be interested in the article, kt

[cappy]

I see on the BBC website photos of Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group of Islands, although uninhabited it is the worst polluted in the world, and some photos are pretty bad. Most of this rubbish is of plastic nature, and when I was at sea and everything consigned to Davy Jones locker, I don't think we had that amount of plastic in those days ( 1950-60s). Empty tinnies would not last long in that environment , but of course lots of timber, food waste , bottles , etc, thought that Brian Kong might be interested in the article, kt

###learn something everyday keith...i thought having laid off pitcairn ni some heavy weather to secure logs on deck there was only the one island regards cappy

[Keith Tindell]

Only repeating from the article Cappy, unfortunately never got to that part of the world in my sea days, but I thought Pitcairn was on its own as well. Who knows, may get out in that part of the world one day, kt