Teahupo'o - Paradise Found

On Thursday, July 8th, Alan and i decided to circumnavigate the island of Tahiti, which is actually made up of two volcanic remnants: Tahiti Nui (Big Tahiti) and Tahiti Iti (Little Tahiti) connected by an isthmus.  The road goes completely around Tahiti Nui and 2/3 of the way along both the south and north coast of Tahiti Iti. Of course, we drove to the ends of all the main roads!

At the end of the south coast road of Tahiti Iti, that Paradise Lost you've heard about was found!  Teahupo'o (pronounced te-ha-oo-po) is on every serious surfer's must-do list, and offers the world's heaviest waves, often 3 meters in height, and very glassy water. There were not many out surfing when we were there as we heard it may be the wrong season.  Nevertheless, the breaks looked very impressive. The townsite itself is very beautiful, and at the local outdoor restaurant we lunched on fish-and-homefries in a baguette.  Never had that before.

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