Mark's Pages

"Unlike Tahiti, Huahine - only ten miles long and six miles across - was still largely agricultural, and more fruitful than I'd imagined from reading Cook's journals. We drove past farms of breadfruit and pineapple as Dorothy played tour guide. 'Hua means genitals and hine refers to female fertility,' she said, 'so the name of the island translates roughly as Pussy.'" — Tony Horwitz, Blue Latitudes