Today we visited a small island with less than 500 people. The 1st photo is as we are still coming in to the harbor. After tendering in, we went on a walk-about with the ship's anthropologist. After walking on a road supervised by French missionaries made of stones, we saw (2nd photo) a museum with some artifacts from 1890. We then walked into a valley (behind a person's house who the guide received special permission to take groups) up a very steep valley, to where some petroglyphs were carved--the 3rd photo showing an Orca giving birth.
This afternoon, the ship went slowly up the coast, finally viewing a very majestic bay (last photo). We will see three more islands in the Marquesas before heading south to the more well known, and populated, Society Islands.
Location:Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
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