French Polynesia

We start our cruise with a different view on Huahine. Gérard takes us to a secluded little bay that used to house a treehouse hotel in the 80s, beloved by locals and tourists at the time until a hurricane blew it away. Now it is an overgrown small stretch of beach, forlorn and idyllic. The […]

Rangiroa, the most known of the Tuamotu archipelago, is famed for its world class diving, with two big passes teeming with fish. We arrive from Tikehau after another night of fighting the waves with face forward winds. Our poor captains don’t get much of a rest in these choppy waters. Jules takes us out on the […]

The Tuamotu archipelago is known in the diving community as one of the most beautiful and adrenaline spiking places to spot abundant sealife and do “current diving“. It is a collection of atolls with very little land, often just strips a couple hundred meters wide, encircling a or several lagoons. The topography is strikingly different from the […]

We arrive in Maupiti the old fashioned way: the catamaran’s sails up, passing the island’s famous (and often infamous 😯) pass. The pass is so incredibly narrow and fraught with dangerous rocks close to the surface, that you can only access the pass if the swell is in your favour. We get lucky – Papa […]

Fakarava, the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls, is  basically a very long stretch of land, almost rectangular 60km x 21km with one spectacular pass in the  North and one at the most Southern tip. We reach this pretty spot after 41 hours of navigation. At this point I declare mutiny: there is no way […]

Huahine has to be the incarnation of paradise, together with Maupiti the most beautiful of all the islands we visit, in my opinion. Which is a bit outrageous to say given how gorgeous all the islands are. Huahine’s name comes from the shape of its rolling hills, which look like a pregnant woman lying down […]

Following our beautiful few days on Easter Island, we head off in the middle of the night to Tahiti. Upon landing at 2am, it will be the twins’ 7th birthday! We have a very short night in a great AirBnB with the friendliest host ever. He not only prepared birthday candles as requested, but threw […]