French
pp. 59-62 · Read in the full issue
Polynesia has that certain smile
French Polynesia—people and places. The man at the top of the page is cutting palm to thatch a roof, the kids to his right are fishing on Bora Bora wharf, and the chap above is cleaning a street in Papeete. To the left of the page, the Royal Papeete Hotel and Papeete's jumping Whisky a Gogo.
At the top of the page, Moorea from the air; above, children sit on the memorial to famous Pacific yachtsman Alain Gerbault; right, the memorial on Tahiti to Captain Louis Antoine Bougainville who landed on the island in 1768; and left, a beach on Moorea.
It's been photographed before and the photographs have been reproduced in maga zines before, but we make no apologies for reproducing once again a picture of Moorea's Pao Pao Bay. After all it would be hard to find a more beautiful bay anywhere else —even in French Polynesia. It's got everything a South Seas bay should have mountain peaks and palm-fringed shores and, in this case, a backdrop of billowing white clouds and a yacht at moorings. Stories on French Polynesia by KEN McGREGOR begin opposite.