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when you put together the pieces that have pictures on it...spells dad. I think i'll hang these at least .5-1" from eath other.
Soldiers with the 331st Transportation Company from Fort Eustis, Va., "stab" the beach with the Army Trident Pier July, 21 during Joint Logistics Over the Shore 2008. The Trident Pier is a floating causeway that will allow Soldiers and Sailors to move rolling stock and shipping containers from ships anchored at sea onto the shore using an improvised port. The critical training the Soldiers and Sailors receive allows them to quickly and efficiently move equipment from ship to shore for military missions or humanitarian assistance when a port is nonexistent or has been destroyed. (Photo by Sgt. Stephen Proctor, JTF8 Public Affairs)
Neophilydor fuscipenne erythronotum
Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro province, Ecuador.
A poor shot, but photos of this species are quite scarce, and practically nonexistent from Ecuador. This is at the southernmost point of its known range.
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Photo unrelated. But if you squint you can see a black bear.
Well, like a few of our other companions, I am now off to college. I'm majoring in Aerospace engineering with a minor in Military Science, and am a contracted Cadet in Army ROTC. I'm officially in the Army now. In 5ish years I plan on graduating with my masters degree and commissioning into the Army as an Officer, more then likely I'll be going Infantry.
Until then, I regret to say it, but any and every Lego building from me will be sparse or nonexistent. Between living 3 hours away from my Lego, Having class, and on top of that doing activities, drills, etc. with ROTC both during classes and over some breaks, I won't be building. I will still try to be as active on Flickr as I can, and feel free to Flickrmail or IM me or the like.
Of course I'll always have my Lego, so Look for me to start building on 5-6 years :P
And this, Farewell and God bless!
Scorpier
Beautiful downtown Skagway. Though Skagway is a small enough town that you can pleasantly travel around it on foot, side trips from Skagway to any of the neighboring cities can prove to be a difficult proposition. For example, the city of Haines is 14 miles away by ferry, but if you try and rent a car and drive to Haines, it is an unbelievable 359-mile trip to get there because of the poor or nonexistent access to roads around Skagway.
We were anchored off of Korsakov in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast for the day, and one of the more notable features was the severe marine layer experienced in the vast Aniva Bay. At regular intervals, impenetrable fog would sweep over the ship: you could see it approaching in a wall extending up to about 100 meters, above which it was perfectly clear. Winds kept the banks of mist rolling in and out throughout the day, so that visibility alternated between perfectly sunny and nonexistent. Pictured, one of those banks receding off our southern flank as the sun began to grow low, as seen from the pool bar, with the silhouette of a tanker recently revealed by the fog rolling back.
1993 Suède Sweden Svezia
Escapade en train à Blåhammaren, dans le nord de la Suède, près de la frontier norvégienne.
Il est conseillé de savoir lire une carte et utiliser la boussole, car les sentiers ne sont pas bien marqués et on ne rencontre quasi personne ... le temps peut aussi changer brusquement : en qq minutes on passé de l'été à l'hiver avec de la neige (meme en plein mois de juillet).
Week-end close to the Norwegian border, in the north of Sweden, at Blåhammaren.
It is recommended to be able to read a map and use a compass because the paths are almost nonexistent ... the weather can also change within minutes going from Summer into Winter (with snow mid of July).
Camminata vicina al confine con la Norvegia, a Blåhammaren (2 giorni).
Saper leggere una mappa e utilizzare una bussola è d'obbligo perché i sentieri non si vedono bene. E non c'è molta gente da incontrare ! Subito il meteo può anche cambiare da estate a inverno con neve a metà luglio !
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Meet Julian, Mason, Perry and Nika: Four old friends who reunite after college graduation.
Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about the data they will be recording and how it helps with her research with Emily Phillips (blue), a ecology graduate student, Natalia Younan (pink), a wildlife and fish coservation major, Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, and Catelyn Bylsma (grey), evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.
The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.
Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.
At Atami city , Shizuoka, Japan 29th Dec. 2005
This castle was constructed in 1959. In fact this castle is nonexistent in Japanese history, this is for just tourist.
This is my first attempt at HDR.
It was a sunny day so I decided to visit The British Museum. Unfortunately by the time I got there, it became cloudy and the dramatic deep blue sky I had hoped to capture with sun light streaming through the curved glass roof and casting shadows were nonexistent. :-( Instead the sky turned a whitish grey and inside the museum everything looked dull and colourless. So HDR to the rescue!
All the shots were taken handheld (who says you need a tripod) 3 bracketed exposures set at continuous firing.
After a few hours at the museum as the weather was poor I decided to visit Westminster Cathedral. I had to struggle to get there and find parking. Once inside I found out that photography wasn’t allowed during a service so I had to wait around an hour until it finished. I think I captured some good shots for HDR but unbelievably, when I got back home and started to download the photos, half way through the download the memory card got somehow got jammed and I couldn’t download the photos from the church. What a nightmare! A wasted afternoon:-( By the way, this was a new 32GB Kingston elite pro card. The shop recommended it to me as they didn’t have the Lexar in stock that I wanted. So I won’t be buyer Kingston cards again.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos.
As it’s my first attempt at HDR I would be grateful for your comments, criticisms etc.
United Houma Nation Relief Center
4400 LA Hwy 1
Raceland, Louisiana
Lafourche Parish
The United Houma Nation (UHN) is a state recognized tribe of approximately 17,000 tribal citizens residing within a six-parish service area encompassing 4,570 square miles. The six parishes, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Mary, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes are located along the southeastern coast of Louisiana. Within this area, distinct tribal communities are situated among the interwoven bayous and canals where Houmas traditionally earned a living. Although by land and road these communities are distant, they were historically very close by water. However, boat travel is no longer a viable option due to the effects of coastal erosion, which has left these waterways either nonexistent or impassable and often treacherous.
Oil and the Houma Nation in History:
Oil from Macando and it's impact on the Houma Nation:
Friday was a hot and hazy day. The view from Windy Saddle was almost nonexistent. The peaks were already beginning to fade, and the mountains across the Salmon River canyon were barely visible.
Sad scene indeed, this lady had spent all day on the roadside, sitting in this same place and same position as hundreds of people walked by, or passed by in (on) various vehicles. When I approached her and offered a donation she refused to accept, obviously being mentally ill thus being castaway fom society - no one to turn to.
Umbrellas
This sculpture has landed and looks for a nonexistent carcass, it mixes an instinct within nature with a superstition within the human; vultures are a bad omen in and of themselves whereas opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck.
I like this photo as an art reference photo. Its interesting how the lines of the birds go from quite stark to almost nonexistent . Also there cast reflection is lighter than the surrounding water. also fi interesting; the riot of white juxtaposed to the unclean water and litter surrounding them
The High Line…again. February 8, 2024
Although there is nothing really new in this group of photos, it was still a great day to get out under a clear blue sky and escape from the house for a few hours. Yes it was another trip south on the High Line for the umpteenth time, and yes, another stop for lunch at the Berlin Currywurst stand at Chelsea Market, and then a walk through the West Village to Grace Church at 10th St and Broadway to listen to the daily “Bach at Noon” concert. It was a completely relaxing journey, with occasional stops for a few photos, sort of looking at things with new eyes, and from new angles. Most of the photos came out quite well on this relaxing photo journey.
And with the holiday season over, and the fact that it was the middle of winter, crowds were nonexistent along the High Line. Wonderfull!
They took out the railroad tracks in 2009, but not the sign. There were people parking in the area to go fishing, so I can see why they had the sign to begin with.
July 3/09. The hailstones had piled up along the road. A moment later I had to put the camera down as I was scraping bottom and traction was nonexistent. Weird stuff for the middle of summer! But then I was through it; these weather phenomena are usually quite localized.
Since our kids dream constantly of their own universes that are loaded with manors, princesses, vehicles, unprecedented houses, cabins and woodlands, we offer them beds that make their fantasies work out as expected! Since the creative mind of your youngster consistently starts in his room, cause this last to be his own private world so he might cherish it and want to invest energy in his little world without being exhausted. Presently, most children's furniture producers offer a great deal of inventive bed plans to astonish kids. The bed particularly takes the significant piece of the child's room, that is the reason we find inventive bed structures for kids taking nonexistent looks and clever topics in a wide scope of styles and structures.
A feeling, a touch, and emotion. What is the connection between the three? Why do I have all of them?
An emotion is a touch to the heart. Lately I've been having a lot of those. Every minute that goes by they seem more extreme. One minute I want to crack up laughing, the other I want to cry, and seconds later I feel guilt and regret. What is the cause of this, who is the cause of this? I honestly do not know.
I'm trying. I'm trying to understand everything. I'm trying to position myself in a plane where light reaches me and everything is understood. I'm trying to clear my head to a place where things are objective and feelings devoid. But so far I don't think I've reached anything. I feel everything around me to and extreme. I can sense the tears he shed that night when out of an impulse and a sliver of frustration he would make everything that happened nonexistent. He would break my heart. I see it now from his side. His room his computer, his fingers typing the message. I see my tears that next morning when finally I would understand that those texts I had sent him probably shattered his heart even more.
I see today. I see their hands around mine. I see the hope in their eyes and the indecision in mine. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to feel, I don't know what to remember. I am lost in a world of feeling. I am lying on the ground, paralyzed to the touch but extremely conscious of everything. I am still, but I am restless.
I see how my friends words seem to mimic everything I've lived before. There in that moment I feel it shattering again. Blowing up in my face like a million pieces. I feel what I could do to others.
I feel and I feel, but I'm paralyzed and can do nothing.
One of the three problems in China for westerners. The other two are almost nonexistent English and slow/useless western internet (e.g. Google Maps are maybe 20% complete).
I think she would do an awesome smiling swordfish.
This painful set back has pushed my walking off and i guess for some time ..Not good .
I still made my weigh in and found i gained three pounds and a hurt foot .
so pictures are going to be nonexistent for some time.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
A daring Florida couple quit their jobs and sold all their worldly goods then moved into a 12'X14' hut (no electricity or plumbing) on a 3-acre island in the Gulf of Mexico to fulfill a dream: exploring The Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades by canoe -- covering 3,500 miles -- during their 30-month sojourn there, 1957-1960.
University of Florida, Class of 1952: Barbara Home Stewart (BA, Psychology) is featured with her husband Orin Good Fogle in the video Everglades Odyssey, which portrays the couple exploring the Everglades when development of that area was almost nonexistent.
Note how many of the roofs in this image feature terracotta tile. This is true throughout Switzerland -- most roofs are protected by tile or slate; asphalt shingles are virtually nonexistent. Homes and other buildings are built to LAST. It is very common to see houses that are several hundred years old. We did not see a single Ryan Home.
This is my first attempt at HDR.
It was a sunny day so I decided to visit The British Museum. Unfortunately by the time I got there, it became cloudy and the dramatic deep blue sky I had hoped to capture with sun light streaming through the curved glass roof and casting shadows were nonexistent. :-( Instead the sky turned a whitish grey and inside the museum everything looked dull and colourless. So HDR to the rescue!
All the shots were taken handheld (who says you need a tripod) 3 bracketed exposures set at continuous firing.
After a few hours at the museum as the weather was poor I decided to visit Westminster Cathedral. I had to struggle to get there and find parking. Once inside I found out that photography wasn’t allowed during a service so I had to wait around an hour until it finished. I think I captured some good shots for HDR but unbelievably, when I got back home and started to download the photos, half way through the download the memory card got somehow got jammed and I couldn’t download the photos from the church. What a nightmare! A wasted afternoon:-( By the way, this was a new 32GB Kingston elite pro card. The shop recommended it to me as they didn’t have the Lexar in stock that I wanted. So I won’t be buyer Kingston cards again.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos.
As it’s my first attempt at HDR I would be grateful for your comments, criticisms etc.
This is my first attempt at HDR.
It was a sunny day so I decided to visit The British Museum. Unfortunately by the time I got there, it became cloudy and the dramatic deep blue sky I had hoped to capture with sun light streaming through the curved glass roof and casting shadows were nonexistent. :-( Instead the sky turned a whitish grey and inside the museum everything looked dull and colourless. So HDR to the rescue!
All the shots were taken handheld (who says you need a tripod) 3 bracketed exposures set at continuous firing.
After a few hours at the museum as the weather was poor I decided to visit Westminster Cathedral. I had to struggle to get there and find parking. Once inside I found out that photography wasn’t allowed during a service so I had to wait around an hour until it finished. I think I captured some good shots for HDR but unbelievably, when I got back home and started to download the photos, half way through the download the memory card got somehow got jammed and I couldn’t download the photos from the church. What a nightmare! A wasted afternoon:-( By the way, this was a new 32GB Kingston elite pro card. The shop recommended it to me as they didn’t have the Lexar in stock that I wanted. So I won’t be buyer Kingston cards again.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos.
As it’s my first attempt at HDR I would be grateful for your comments, criticisms etc.
We are at the Strictly Sail Pacific boat show in Oakland this weekend. The plan is to get a good look at the new sailboats and maybe get some design ideas for interiors, etc.
Also, hopefully talk to sailboat hardware vendors and see what they have to offer. Both IBEX and the Seattle Boat Show were low (if nonexistent) on sailboat hardware. This show is only sailboats. NO POWERBOATS!
The photo is the view from the hotel room looking towards Jack London Square, where the show is at.
1993 Suède Sweden Svezia
Escapade en train à Blåhammaren, dans le nord de la Suède, près de la frontier norvégienne.
Il est conseillé de savoir lire une carte et utiliser la boussole, car les sentiers ne sont pas bien marqués et on ne rencontre quasi personne ... le temps peut aussi changer brusquement : en qq minutes on passé de l'été à l'hiver avec de la neige (meme en plein mois de juillet).
Week-end close to the Norwegian border, in the north of Sweden, at Blåhammaren.
It is recommended to be able to read a map and use a compass because the paths are almost nonexistent ... the weather can also change within minutes going from Summer into Winter (with snow mid of July).
Camminata vicina al confine con la Norvegia, a Blåhammaren (2 giorni).
Saper leggere una mappa e utilizzare una bussola è d'obbligo perché i sentieri non si vedono bene. E non c'è molta gente da incontrare ! Subito il meteo può anche cambiare da estate a inverno con neve a metà luglio !
Model: Sweetgum Balls
Photographer: tanith k
Editor: tanith k
I went for a brief photo walk in the neighborhood today. It was a bit chilly, but the sun was warm and the wind was nonexistent. Which was very lovely! The 'hood is littered with sweetgum trees. Ugh. They are so blah in the fall and they dump their gumballs everywhere. But when the lighting and pose is just right, I can't say "no" to taking its photo.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Two crowd members enjoying the show during a performance by The Flips supporting Meredosia, Bad Catman, Bookmobile, and Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
Purple garbage view of Soho (London). Wislawa Szymborska instantly sprang to mind:
"Yeti, down there we've got Wednesday,
bread and alphabets.
Two times two is four.
Roses are red there,
and violets are blue.
(...)
We've inherited hope —
the gift of forgetting.
You'll see how we give
birth among the ruins."
(c) 2013/T. B. H. von H.
As I was driving past Hemphill Park on February 15th in the North Campus of Austin, there was someone biking in front of the car. My friend and I were slowly treading down the street, his car sliding every now and then. There were inches of snow covering the roads, and it was slowly turning into ice. Luckily the car my friend was driving had four-wheel drive, but I was concerned about this biker skidding out of control on the road. This photo encapsulates how surreal the day was--bright blue skies, white ground, nonexistent rules of the road. Little did we know what the rest of the week would entail.
1993 Suède Sweden Svezia
Escapade en train à Blåhammaren, dans le nord de la Suède, près de la frontier norvégienne.
Il est conseillé de savoir lire une carte et utiliser la boussole, car les sentiers ne sont pas bien marqués et on ne rencontre quasi personne ... le temps peut aussi changer brusquement : en qq minutes on passé de l'été à l'hiver avec de la neige (meme en plein mois de juillet).
Week-end close to the Norwegian border, in the north of Sweden, at Blåhammaren.
It is recommended to be able to read a map and use a compass because the paths are almost nonexistent ... the weather can also change within minutes going from Summer into Winter (with snow mid of July).
Camminata vicina al confine con la Norvegia, a Blåhammaren (2 giorni).
Saper leggere una mappa e utilizzare una bussola è d'obbligo perché i sentieri non si vedono bene. E non c'è molta gente da incontrare ! Subito il meteo può anche cambiare da estate a inverno con neve a metà luglio !
The nonexistent nuisance of mankind.
I am just reading a book where the protagonist claims there is no such thing as time. Because the past is gone, the future hasn`t come yet and the present has no expansion.
The Shining anyone? Yes, that's right. Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front exterior, but all the interiors as well as the back of the hotel were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England. The management of the Timberline requested that Stanley Kubrick not use 217 for a room number (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay in that room ever again. Kubrick changed the script to use the nonexistent room number 237.
idea got from dream. watercolor.
Nature of existence.2008.
This world is not true .there is nothing in this.The problem of existence is great. Without any way out.in the film called holly smoke katewinslet is asking her mother who is not allowing her to become the wife of a god man in rajasthan. Think mother why we are here .When somebody knows that he exists a terrible fear attacks him (hers) into her inner being. Mind is asking I want to get out of being or to know if I did not exist.He is not able to cope up with his existence in any way. But i exist. This is true.There is no way for me to become nonexistent. When he realizes this he will cry.Scream out of fear. Still many peopledo not know this.This basic truth.He will wonder.When a child is born first he should first have this experience.With much strength one may tell that I don’t exist.But this is the truth.my existence is the truth. At this second I exist.At this second I exist here. If said that I exists that is enough,there is no necessary in telling that there exists something else also.
In the depth of his existence he will be in sorrow that nobody understands him.It is not only that I exists I only exists. The people around me may be acting.They might tell that they existwithout existing in reality.Even if they exist we will not get anything. I ‘am always me. I ‘am not others.If I became others they are also me. I'm alone.
A person knows nothing about himself.The truth is that he even doesn’t know that he exists.Hedoesn’t know the real reason behind anything on this world.What I’m coming to say is that anything can happen to a person. I’m fit to experience anything.That may be pain or pleasure on infinite time.What may happen we might not have known yet? This world might go and a new world may appear.Emotions and thought with a new meaning.God may appear.He will wonder why this change is not appearing.What might happen after death may happen now also.Anything may happen without death also.There is no special importance for death.Death is nothing. In the depth of his existence he will cry that there is noway to become none existent.Only fools say that my existence has become a problem.My existence may be a problem or may not be a problem.But it is a necessity.Not that i exists in this world.There is no importance for the world.Universe has no importance.Just that I exists. Why my existence is called a necessity.Is that because Iam required to know this world.Or is it because I’m required to do a work in this world.Nothing.My existence is a necessity .for nothing.Not for knowing or doing anything.Simply for nothing.They are not meaning that soul should exist.It is not a question whether soul should exist or not exist.My existence is a necessity. That's all.it might be a feeling that whatever existing must always exist.
I will exist for ever. not only that boredom. The problem is that I cannot become nonexistent. After infinite time then also my mind will tell that I want to become none existent. But there is no way out. i will not become nonexistent . Even if I become nonexistent I have become spoiled. at some point of time I was existing somewhere. That existence is existing there. If somebody wants to torture me he may pick that loophole and climb. Me* time* experience.That is there.Even if I didn't know that I exists that is the truth.Life is a great try for not knowing that. Consciousness of my existence,i exist on eternity at some corner at some point of time,at this second,Here or where ever, It is the experience of existence. Some people may think what is experiencing now,this is the consciousness.What is the bigger consciousness?Someone can tell that this is the consciousness of consciousness.What is the wonder in my existence?this world and me, all is new to me.I don't expect that this all may exist. Thiscolor, stone,sand.i don't expect that this exists.There is no way for me to know that other people exist.That is why my existence becomes an experience. in sixth sense at the end brucewillis will realize that he himself is the ghost. An experience like that.
Nature of existence, briefly.
I exists,who am I,why I ‘am here?I must exist.I exist even if i don't exist.It is a necessity that i exists I will exist for ever.It is foolishness to imagine that if i don' exist.I can’t escape from my existence I only exist. I’m alone.
I finished reading my summer reading book today. That was the title. Really good book, stupid (nonexistent) ending.
Picture taken 1987 during my 5-month-trip around the world - digitally captured from paper print. Sorry for the bad quality.
I have uploaded a lot of my digitally captured photos, which I took since 2004. But the most interesting journeys I did between 1979 and 2004! Those photos are on slide.
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Bora Bora (French: Bora-Bora, Tahitian: Pora Pora) is a 30.55 km2 island group in the Leeward group in the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The main island, located about 230 kilometres northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 metres.
Bora Bora is a major international tourist destination, famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. The major settlement, Vaitape, is on the western side of the main island, opposite the main channel into the lagoon. Produce of the island is mostly limited to what can be obtained from the sea and the plentiful coconut trees, which were historically of economic importance for copra.
DEMOGRAPHICS
As of 2017, the Bora Bora group has a permanent population of 10,605.
NAME
In ancient times the island was called "Pora pora mai te pora", meaning "created by the gods" in the local Tahitian dialect. This was often abbreviated Pora Pora meaning simply "first born". Because of ambiguities in the phonemes of the Tahitian language, this could also be pronounced Bola Bola or Bora Bora. When explorer Jacob Roggeveen first landed on the island, he and his crew adopted the name Bora Bora which has stood ever since.
HISTORY
The island was inhabited by Polynesian settlers around the 4th century C.E.[citation needed] The first European sighting was made by Jakob Roggeveen in 1722.
James Cook sighted the island on 29 July 1769, using a Tahitian navigator, Tupaia. The London Missionary Society arrived in 1820 and founded a Protestant church in 1890. Bora Bora was an independent kingdom until 1888 when its last queen Teriimaevarua III was forced to abdicate by the French who annexed the island as a colony.
WORLD WAR II
In World War II the United States chose Bora Bora as a South Pacific military supply base, and an oil depot, airstrip, seaplane base, and defensive fortifications were constructed. Known as "Operation Bobcat", it maintained a supply force of nine ships, 20,000 tons of equipment and nearly 7,000 men.
At least eight 7"/44 caliber guns, operated by elements of the 13th Coast Artillery Regiment (later the 276th Coast Artillery Battalion), were set up at strategic points around the island to protect it against potential military attack. Eight of these guns remain in the area.
However, the island saw no combat as the American presence on Bora Bora went uncontested over the course of the war. The base was officially closed on 2 June 1946. The World War II airstrip was never able to accommodate large aircraft, but it nonetheless was French Polynesia's only international airport until Faa'a International Airport opened next to Papeete, Tahiti, in 1960.
ADMINISTRATION
The commune of Bora-Bora is made up of the island of Bora Bora proper with its surrounding islets emerging from the coral reef, 29.3 km2 in total. The surrounding islets include Motu Tapu, Motu Ahuna, Tevairoa, Motu Tane, Motu Mute, Motu Tufari, Motu Tehotu, Motu Pitiaau, Sofitel Motu, Motu Toopua, and Toopuaiti. The commune also includes the Tūpai atoll. (11 km2), located 20 kilometres north of Bora Bora. The atoll of Tūpai has no permanent population apart from about 50 workers in the coconut plantations.
The commune is an administrative subdivision of the Leeward Islands and consists of three associated communes: Anau, Faanui and Vaitape. The administrative centre of the commune is the settlement of Vaitape, on the island of Bora Bora proper. Gaston Tong Sang is the Mayor of the commune of Bora-Bora, serving since 1989.
TOURISM
The island's economy is driven almost solely by tourism. Several resorts have been built on motu (small islands, from Tahitian) surrounding the lagoon. Hotel Bora Bora opened in 1961, and nine years later built the first over-the-water bungalows on stilts over the lagoon. Today, over-water bungalows are a standard feature of most Bora Bora resorts. The quality of those bungalows ranges from comparably cheap, basic accommodations to very luxurious and expensive places to stay.
Most of the tourist destinations are aqua-centric; however it is possible to visit attractions on land such as WWII cannons. Air Tahiti has five or six flights daily to the Bora Bora Airport on Motu Mute from Tahiti (as well as from other islands). Public transport on the island is nonexistent so rental cars and bicycles are the recommended methods of transport. There are also small, two-seater buggies for hire in Vaitape. It is possible to rent a motorboat to explore the lagoon.
Snorkeling and scuba diving in and around the lagoon of Bora Bora are popular activities. Many species of sharks and rays inhabit the surrounding body of water. There are a few dive operators on the island offering manta ray dives and also shark-feeding dives. Sharks living in the island's lagoon are not considered to be dangerous to people.[citation needed]
In addition to the existing islands of Bora Bora, the new manmade motu of Motu Marfo has been added in the northeastern corner of the lagoon on the property of the St. Regis Resort.
WIKIPEDIA
Deputy Chief of Mission, Jeri Guthrie-Corn, and I discuss "the book."
Jeri's goal is to find funding so that more books can be published and distributed to schools.
Here is Jeri's bio: www.bucharest.usembassy.gov/Embassy/dcm.html