It’s full steam ahead aboard Aranui 5 to the raison d’etre of this far-flung voyage through French Polynesia’s remotest isles and...
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05 January 2023
After visiting flat atolls of the Tuamotus and then a day out at sea, the appearance on the horizon of the Gambier...
29 December 2022
Our voyage to Pitcairn Island continues as Aranui 5 sets sail from Anaa for Amanu, another one of the far-flung 80 atolls spread out across...
19 December 2022
At San Francisco Airport I enjoy a filling lunch at the comfy United Club lounge. Relaxed, I then board a United Airlines nonstop direct flight for my 15th...
11 December 2022
After Ranger Benny’s presentation about Alcatraz’s political prisoners, I climb uphill (trams are available) past cannons, barb wire and beneath a water...
10 December 2022
Separated by water from continents, islands have always represented freedom to me. When I graduated from Hunter College as a film major in the 1970s, I...