A photographic journey while I was aweigh of life. Apologies in that many of the photos are of inferior quality. I lost a lot of photos due to extended periods of time between when the photos were taken and when they were developed, where the exposed film deteriorated due to the heat and humidity. But if you suffer through them, they might fill in any blanks in your imagination. You can right click on any of them to open in a new tab.
The journey starts here….
Trinity – this is the beginning of it all when friends asked me to go in with them to buy a boat. 
Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in Waikiki where I lived before I sailed to the South Pacific 
Ah, setting sail!!! 
Anchorage 
Anchorage 
Anchorage 
Peder and Henri with Chico 
Peder and Chico 
Along the hike from Taioha’e to Taipivai 
Along the path to Taipivai 
The steep detour we had to take on hike to Taipivai 
Looking down on Taioha’e 
Monsieur Raphael’s shack on way to Taipivai 
The mouth of Taipivai upon leaving 
The teacher coming from Taiohai’e that we towed back to Taipivai 
Sentinel rock, HIva Oa 
Fatu Hiva 
Fatu Hiva 
Fatu Hiva 
Fatu Hiva 
Anchorage at Hana Vave, Fatu Hiva 
Fisherman near Papeete 
Hua Hini 
A white man’s way of climbing a coconut tree (not to be recommended) 
Bora Bora Bike trip – Island scenery 
Coconut grove 
Looking towards Aitutaki 
Atuona 
Anchorage 
Another hitchhiker 
Another anchorage 
Papeete – getting read for Bastille Day 
Drying fishing nets 
My book cover shot – Bora Bora 
Water scenes 
Beach scene 
Island outrigger 
Typical greeting party upon arriving in any anchorage 
Tahitian canoe made for Disney movie on Bora Bora
The Rarotonga Independence Day Parade and a few other Cook Island scenes
Scenes from Palmerston, Fortuna, and Fiji
Fortuna 
Fortuna 
Fiji wedding feast 
Beating off the sharks while fishing and collecting shells 
Women collecting shells on Palmerston Atoll 
The orange juice brew party at Palmerston 
One of several Fijian villages we hiked though 
Fijian village in highlands 
Fiji 
Preparing for Fijian wedding 
House on Western Samoa 
House on Fortuna
New Zealand
The pie-bald horse born on the day I arrived in Pawarenga 
Pawarenga, Hokianga, New Zealand 
The swing bridge to Jack and Irene’s 
Coming over the hill from the swing bridge, the view of Jack and Irene’s thatched house 
A river ran through it. 
Beginning construction of my house in New Zealand 
My house construction 
Putting on the roof 
Putting on the thatched roof 
In the beginning, it was a one-room A-frame 
In the end, after “second room” addition 
Scenes around Pawarenga 
The author in New Zealand hut 
Inside my New Zealand hut… that’s a cook stove where, now, I wonder why the place never burned down 
Inside my New Zealand hut; the tapa cloth I bought in Fiji 
The route we took on horses each spring tide, down the Pawarenga River out to the coast to collect mussels
On the road to Cooktown (my singular photo of the whole trip)
Leaving New Caledonia
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Learning to make pandanus mats on Wari Island 
Little girl on Wari while family weaves mats 
Walking through Wari village 
Wari pottery – this thin and perfectly round clay pot is created by hand. 
Wari Island women 
“Sister Angelica” and nuns at Mission 
Bagi on girl 
Local during Independence Day festival 
Woman blowing shell horn during festivities 
The can under her arm is her “betelnut stash” 
Young girls during Independence Day festivities 
Cook shack at Sebulogomwa, Papua New Guinea — after some rain 
Our garden at Sebulogomwa after some reain
A baby is born and the hills were alive with the sound of music
Washing and hanging out my one dozen cloth diapers in preparation for the big day 
Soon 
Thatched hut we lived in at Sebulogomwa 
Cook shack 
The author with one-day-old Heidi. The two girls on the outside were 16-year-old stdent nurses; the two closest to me were 18 years old.
And life on Ponape, Tahiti and beyond….
Getting ready to go to work at Teacher Corps 
Doing dishes in Ponapa 
Coming back from swimming and playing in Ponape 
The fishing boat on reef when Dave went to rescue man 
Islanders breaking up the coral reef to free fishing boat 
Tahiti moorage teaching Heidi to surf 
Back in Tahiti, Heidi and her little brother 
Shortly after returning to the States. Trying to keep “Arlo” warm in poncho I wove in New Zealand