I’ve Tikehauposted a bunch of pictures on Flickr from the trip Eileen and I recently took to French Polynesia in the sunny south Pacific for those interested. Gorgeous places there I have to say, but the food is so mediocre as to make one want to weep. We lived on trail mix and energy bars on Tikehau, where there is only one restaurant (very overpriced, very blah), but there is nothing like places so far away from the rest of humanity as to feel almost a different planet. Highlight of the trip was definitely the diving. We did eight dives, and saw all sorts of things, including dozens of sharks (some 10 foot+), turtles, eagle rays, spotted eels, lionfish, huge Napoleon fish, and so on.

The only thing that sucks about flying to go experience nature is knowing that flying on a jet airplane is just about the most environmentally irresponsible act an individual can commit. Oh well. If we’re going to fuck up the environment, I just want to enjoy relatively undisturbed bits before it all goes pear-shaped I guess. How selfish of me.