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There are not many places where precipitous mountains tower over beaches quite like they do here. The compressive effect of a telephoto lens was not needed to create that impression in these photos. For, as the crow flies, they are indeed close to each other, and it was natural to include both together in many of these images. But try to penetrate inland on foot and actually surmount one of these peaks, well, that`s another matter entirely. Thick, untamed jungle will bar your way, and local environmentalists might not be too happy about you taking a machete to hack your way through it. So these peaks remain in the strictly for looking at category. I suppose with sufficient effort they could be climbed, but as the mountaineer Doug Scott once remarked to Dougal Haston, "we know we could, so why bother?" |
Motus of Bora Bora from flight to Tahiti |
View next to landing strip, Bora Bora airport |
Mont Otemanu, Bora Bora, from the air |
Bora Bora lagoon from a motu |
Diadème from Papara, Tahiti |
Bora Bora from a motu |
Bora Bora from a motu |
Moorea from Chez Armelle, Tahiti |
Taken at Chez Dina, Moorea |
Diving off Morea |
Taken at Chez Dina, Moorea |
Diving off Morea |
Mont Mouaroa, Moorea |
Mont Tohiea from Three Coconut |
Peaks of Tahiti Iti from Vallée Vaitepiha |
Tahiti Nui from a lookout on Tahiti Iti |
Moorea from Chez Armelle, Tahiti |
Tour guide holding grey reef shark |
Seranaded on Bora Bora lagoon |
Mont Mouaroa, Moorea |
Bora Bora lagoon from a motu |
Baie de Nuarei, Moorea |
Adriana Swarbrick with Bora Bora |
Taken at Chez Dina, Moorea |
Mont Orohena from Relais de la Maroto |
Baie de Nuarei, Moorea |
Interior of Tahiti and Papenoo River |
Moorea from Chez Armelle, |
Mont Otemanu, Bora Bora, |
Mont Otemanu, Bora Bora, |
Diadème and Mont Iviroa from Papara, Tahiti |
West coast of Tahiti Nui from Tahiti Iti |
Baie de Nuarei, Moorea |
