Pitcairn & Pacific Islands

Roughly 2600 miles (about the same distance from New York to San Francisco) west of Easter Island you’ll find Tahiti.  We spent 3 weeks traveling among the tiny islands and even smaller atolls in between.  Most along the way are uninhabited and many have just a few hundred permanent residents.  Most famous among them is Pitcairn, a lush tropical island where most of the 35-40 residents are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions who settled there in 1790.

We spent many hours on, around and under the crystal clear but often choppy water, snorkeling, diving and admiring what on many (most) islands could have been the set from Gilligan’s Island.