Surviving in Daniel’s Bay, Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia

I would have included this entry into the last one except that I noticed you all have been asking for / demanding / threatening bodily harm if I fail to deliver some sweet, sweet pics of the Islands.  So here you go:

Daniel’s Bay is picture perfect and just 5 miles from the largest town in the Marquesas, Taiohae Bay, by boat.  Apparently a season of “Survivor” was filmed here.  I can see why.

Just for a moment, let’s picture the crew chiefs in charge of filming the show and providing for the film crew, etc coming upon this place.

Crew chief 1: Wow this place is perfect!

Crew chief 2: Yeah, so remote, so tropical island in the middle of nowhere looking!

Crew chief 1: One problem, where we gonna go get a beer after we’re done filming for the day?

Local walking by: La bier et la pizza est huit kilometers pour ton bateau

(translation): Beer and pizza is 8 kilometers (5 miles) for your boat

Crew chief 1&2: oh really…

There see, even tossed in a little French lesson for ya.  Anyway, if you watched that show and were concerned about the well being of the competitors, know that they were about 30 minutes from a piping hot pizza, prepared in a stone pizza oven I might add, at any given moment.  This assumes 10 minutes for actually ordering and cooking the pizza.  I am concerned about the residual effects on the local community however…

Now as we have said before, there is an overabundance of coconuts, flowers, plants, bananas, and any tropical fruit or plant that you can really think of.  However, me telling you this just doesn’t convey the abundance these people have come to live with.  Tiffany was shocked to find that these people literally have more high quality fruit then they can possibly handle.

Let’s continue on with our exploration of the unrelenting awesomeness that is this flora of this island as we hike up to the much talked about waterfall on the island.

-Greg

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