What would it be like to live in paradise? Can you try and imagine? (Please click to enlarge). Here are the tools of trade for living in Huahine, outriggers, fishing boats, nets and boat hangers. Guava, Papaya, Coconut, Breadfruit, Passion Fruit, sweet potatoes and Bananas are everywhere growing wild. Fish are teeming in the lagoons. Chickens roam at will.
This man was fishing with a drop line, he saw my camera, and performed an ocean akido for us! How beautiful is he and so at home in his sea?
This is Huahine’ main archeological site with a traditional house, even the palm trees are laid back here.
Lots of folks want to experience paradise on their own terms.
They sail The Society Islands, stopping where and when they choose. They stay for a long time in Huahine. Smart sailors.
And always the pounding surf on the fringing reefs, sings you to sleep at night and awake in the morning.
The fringing reef protects the island and gives it such ethereal hues.
And at the end of the day, this is home!
Oh, and if you are thinking of visiting Polynesia, consider Huahine. If you like to avoid tourists and development, you will be very happy here. Just watch out for the coral!
Cheers to you from incredible Huahine~
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Right now, Cuz, paradise is 70s, warm sunshine, and calm winds. Hope the rest of your trip is as beautiful and fun as this one looks. 🙂
Oh wonderful! You are still in Florida then! Enjoy cuz~
Hi, Cuz,
Sunshine, calm winds and 70 degrees is close enough to paradise for me right now. Hope the rest of your trip is as beautiful and fun as this looks. Got to get that foot fixed and get in the water !!!!! 🙂
I am so glad you are in the sunshine!!!
Your recent posts are marvelous! I wish I could some day go to French Polynesia, and Huahine in particular.
I hope you do go! It is so beautiful!
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos, Cindy! They remind me a lot of where I live-except that overdevelopment and pollution have overwritten much that used to look just like paradise. It’s still here though-just better hidden:-)
So glad you can still find the hidden paradise and hugz & gratitude my friend! ❤
That would be a difficult place to leave. Beautiful photos!
I can see why people chuck everything and move permanently to paradise!
What a stunning place, Cindy. Your photos make me want to hop on a plane right away. 🙂
Well……..why ever not???? 😉
What a beautiful way to spend the day, thanks for the share. Soon I will be living in paradise, or at least visiting it for a few weeks.
Oooooooh, I hope you post the pics and have an awesome time!
Oh Oh Oh! What a place you have found! And how I would love to go there.
Well, it’s off season rates, why not buy the tics and put them under your hubby’s morning cup of jo? That will kick start his day! 😉
stunning tropical beauty……
So empty and unspoiled too!
I am very happy for you and with you Cindy 🙂 Paradise is rare in today’s world. Lucky you. Enjoy your weekend. Wanda
Oh how I loved this vicarious visit to paradise. I especially enjoyed how you captured life with the sea, Cindy. Thanks for taking time out of your visit to share your moments…. 🙂
Thank you much more for taking the time to appreciate them! ❤
LoVe the hut!! And the tree..?! I guess they’re not afraid of a flood?
All the huts are on stilts so it’s no problem if the water rises! They also stay cooler this way because the air circulates 360 degrees~
Wow. And I love how you stretched yourself in the snapping to get the waves. I know it must be hard bc they move!
Xx
It was a lot of fun to play surf photographer for a day!
This is paradise-a beach-the ocean, blue skies and sunshine.
Feels that way to me too! I wonder how long it would take to get boring????
Your captures are breathtakingly phenomenal!
Ahhhhh, you are so incredibly kind! ❤
Reminds me of the four years we spent in Hawaii…so unforgettable! So beautiful Cindy thanks for sharing!
For you my friend, everything!
Schöne Fotos wünsche ein schönes Wochenende lieber Gruß Gislinde
Vielen dank Gislinde & schones Wochende! ❤
Ahhhhh …. a dreamland.
A place perfect for all day dreaming~
A splendid paradise!! 🙂
Paradise found!
beautiful place
It is indeed!
Paradise captured and framed..
Found! ❤
Absolutely perfect! Happy weekend to you dear Cindy! Best wishes, Aquileana 😀
Visa versa 2 U x 2!
A lovely post for a dismal January. Thanks for sharing paradise.
Thank you for visiting!
Have you ever been to Charleston,South Carolina?
No, but I have heard much about it. The only place I have been in the South is New Orleans. I would love to visit~
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I’d almost give up my little corner of paradise for this one!
Almost, you have found your paradise! Lucky you~
No doubt about it, you are in Paradise!
And leaving too soon!
I love the fisherman posing for the camera. That’s what I would do! If you’re on camera, you might as well ham it up. 🙂
Yes, I loved it and he looked so graceful! He was laughing~
Wishing I was going on holiday now 🙂 we’re expecting snow I think this week. Beautiful photographs.
I hope you do go soon and cheers to you!!!
I truly love the pictures on your blog, not only this post but almost everyone else. Great job. 🙂
Ahhhh, your kindness is much appreciated! Cheers to you~
And…I now want to be on vacation. 25 days ’til Kauai…
WOO HOO! Awesome time to go too!
I agree! And if we get more cold and snow before then (likely, as it is Wisconsin after all), I will be even more enthusiastic!
Oh, you will have a delightful time! It is such a beautiful island!
Liebe Cindy wunderschöne Fotos einen super Mittwoch mit vielen lieben Grüßen in Freundschaft Klaus
Sie sind sehr freundlich, mein Freund . Danke!
And, I thought that traveling from chilly (15F) WV to sunny (65F) San Jose, CA today would be toasty! I would not need jeans, let alone flannel lined jeans where you have been.
Oscar
Exactly! One basically wears as little as possible….laughing! 😉
Paradise indeed ~ wouldn’t mind this view right now…happy trails 🙂
You too my friends. I just sent your last post on to friends and family~
🙂 Thanks Cindy ~ dreaming of someplace warm right now (although to be honest, Seattle weather is pretty decent right now!).
Seattle is beautiful, expecially in the sunshine~
such a lovely place…truly a paradise…great photos Cindy 🙂
Very kind & most appreciated!
Paradise, indeed — the fine-looking man with beautiful muscles and suntan included!
One can’t hope but notice such natural beauty!! 😉 😉
I want some of this paradise for real – ha! 🙂
Then you just might get it! Hope you do~
soon…
have a nice day
You….. are one lucky lady!!
In many ways I am, and so are you!
I need to get a hold of your suitcase & squeeze into it. LOL
There’s always room for you! ❤
Don’t you find the sea scary at night, although it glitters in daytime?
No not scary. I used to swim in the ocean at night. I wouldn’t have done so here even without my coral cuts because one has to avoid the coral and the lion fish!
Lion fish? Wow- they resemble lions?
I read a Sherlock story where a poisonous anemone resembles a lion’s mane. Is that the same?
Swimming in the ocean – sounds llike a dream! I would never venture beyond swimming pool.
Lion fish are poisonous. I saw one on my first day in the water. It was large and just floated there like a beautiful, poisonous flower. They will not go after you. They just float and if you leave them alone you are fine. If you touch them, you are in a world of trouble. Thinking of scary stuff and danger. Yesterday I was walking to get the mail and my husband said, “You just walked over a snake.”
I looked and sure enough I had just walked over a almost six year old southern pacific rattlesnake. I wasn’t expecting them out of hibernation so early, so I wasn’t looking and it was in the middle of our road.
I am so grateful he chose not to bite me.