Monday, October 25, 2010

Easter Island

A vulcanic caldera on Easter Island
More Moai

Moai
Judy avec Moai
One of many wild horses on Easter Island
We are at Raratonga, Cook Islands. We have spent one night here and will be leaving in an hour. The following photos are from Easter Island. We had the 3 leading authorities about Easter Island as our tour guides. It was an incredible experience. The island is much prettier than we were expecting. The climate is very similar to ours in La Jolla with a bit more humidity, but not too bad. The flight from Iquitos, Peru was 6.5 hours and we had a couple of lectures by Wade Davis and Keith Bellows from National Geographic. The flight to the Cook Islands was 7 hours and also had a couple of lectures. One was about ancient navigation techniques by the polynesians. Wade accompanied an expedition from Hawaii to Easter Island aboard a replica of an ancient polynesian canoe with a group of polynesians that still knew the ancient navigation techniques. The teacher was an old gentleman from a tiny island near New Caledonia. He taught everyone his techniques. This was an amazing lecture. I want to find some references so I can learn some of these techniques. Today we leave for Papua New Guinea to explore the Sepik River. This is one of the places that I am looking forward to the most. We have a technical stop-over in Fiji to refuel. Our total flight time will be around 8.5-9hours, not including the layover. Our luggage is severely limited and I will not have the laptop for the 3 days that we are there. Therefore, my next entry will be at least a few days from now when we get to Cambodia.
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  1. ChristineOctober 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    You both must be having an amazing time! Your photos are fantastic. You'll need to make photo books when you get back. Looking forward to your next entry. Lots of love. Chris

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  2. UnknownOctober 25, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    Love among the volcanoes! Jim says his childhood dream was to have his picture taken arm and arm with a guy with a bone in his nose (he loved reading National Geographic). Tim, Jim wants you to get this photo of yourself so he can photoshop his own head onto your body. OK???!!!!

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  3. ChristineOctober 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM

    Wait, there already is a photo of Judy with her arm around some scary guy with a bone in his nose. I think it was in Bora Bora. Check Judy's Facebook photos. Maybe Jim could just paste himself in!

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