What an education, to see how the Marquesians meticulously maintain their environment. Always taking care not to exhaust the natural resources, keeping their drinking water supplies clean and clear, looking after their land, and balancing their fishing needs with the importance of not permanently scaring the fish away from the bays and beaches. A way of living that they still practice and pass on to their children to this day.
*Opiate minstrels Crosby, Still and Nash did in Southern Cross, referencing it on a downwind run from Peru via Papeete, the longest possible sailing reach on Earth, but didn’t go into such eloquent detail as Carine. SUP
“ The dramatic effects of the germs and diseases that the European explorers brought with them dragged the population down from 100,000 to 2,200 ”
