Moorea Road Trip
CuriousOyster
Steve & Trish Brown
Sat 26 Jun 2010 01:39
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Trish and I took another opportunity here
in Moorea to rent a car and tour the island. Other than the road around the
edge of the island there are few roads but we did get the opportunity to take
some of the inland tracks to see the farms where many fruits and vegeatbels are
cultivated, including the local type of pineapple for which Moorea is
famous.
  Throughout French Polynesia there are many
churches, both Catholic and Protestant, evidence of the early missionaries, many
of whom were eaten by the locals before the arrival of a new God forced them to
lose their taste for "long pig" as the whiteman was then called.
  The Church on Papanoi has a famous wall mural
depicting the conversion of Queen Pomares III, I'm not sure what she would make
of the more trendy local kids nowadays!
  Church on Sunday is a big social as well as
spiritual event and the women and young girls use the opportunity to dress up,
with flowers in their hair or brightly decorated hats. Moorea also has an
interesting museum that explains many of methods, materials and equipment used
by the early Polynesian settlers.
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