SOUTH SEAS - Rogers and Hammerstein may have called their musical South Pacific but less than 15 seconds of it actually was filmed in Polynesia. In 2004, we decided to spend somewhat longer than that exploring what French painter Henri Matisse called "one of the seven wonders of an artist's heaven." On October 25 we began 23 days of adventure on six of the 118 islands that comprise the South Pacific paradise of Polynesia.

SOUTH SEAS - Rogers and Hammerstein may have called their musical South Pacific but less than 15 seconds of it actually was filmed in Polynesia. In 2004, we decided to spend somewhat longer than that exploring what French painter Henri Matisse called "one of the seven wonders of an artist's heaven." On October 25 we began 23 days of adventure on six of the 118 islands that comprise the South Pacific paradise of Polynesia.