Ua Huka – very different landscape!
At sunrise we found our ship entering little and narrow fjord surrounded by red mountains. This was Ua Huka island and very dangerous anchorage of Vaipaee. This island has different landscape – it is hilly, but not covered by jungle but grass and bush only. In the Vaipaee village up the valley we visited little museum listening to the ukulele & guitar music. Then pick-ups (they do not have even minibuses) took us to the cultural center in the middle of the island for to see great performance of the traditional men warrior dances. This was the best men’s show on this voyage… Coastal high road took us later to Hane through few great viewpoints of the rocky coast. I think that Ua Huka has the best seascapes of the whole archipelago… Few of us attended interesting Sunday mass in Polynesian in the tiny local church. Seamen took us again in the chaloupes from the Hane beach. They are definitely not prepared for such a cases, no broken legs but this was not safe… Polynesian night on the rear deck – both the crew and passengers were performing very nice. We had a lot of fun under the stars…
