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1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Everything seems more colorful in the South Pacific, even a sunburst from behind a palm tree.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - One of the reasons the islands are so clean is that the crabs act like little garbarge collectors, snatching almost anything dropped on the ground and disposing of it in their roadside holes.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Before we left Huahine, we snapped our own "formal" Tahitian self-portrait on the deck of our hibiscus-surrounded bungalow.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - One day we met Paul Atallah, an American-born graduate of the University of Hawaii who now lives in Huahine. Paul is an expert in Polynesian anthropology, archaeology, history, and religion. He gave us a tour of the island....
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - The marea were used by ancient Polynesians as places of religious worship, for weddings, tribal meetings, the crowning of kings and in celebration of victory.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - ...which included a stop at one of the ancient marea, a sacred meeting place of the "pre-contact" Polynesians.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - We hiked up a hill to a fortification built in 1846 with stones from a marea to defend the area against the invasion of the French.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Our tour leader Paul waded into a shallow creek with a can of fish food to attract the blue-eyed Polynesian eel - or in this case, several of them. Each eel is about two- to three-feet long, and they turned the placid creek into a frothing mass in their competition for the food.
1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - We saw a local fishing hut where fish are "herded" into nets by "v"-shaped stone dams built in the estuary.
HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Everything seems more colorful in the South Pacific, even a sunburst from behind a palm tree.

1000places > HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Everything seems more colorful in the South Pacific, even a sunburst from behind a palm tree.
HUAHINE, POLYNESIA - Everything seems more colorful in the South Pacific, even a sunburst from behind a palm tree.

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