Tahitian Love

by James N. Powell
from Tahiti Beach Press Magazine September 2009

Honeymoon season is upon us, reminding us that Tahiti, long a port of call for surfers, sailors and snowbirds, has long beckoned as a Shangri-la for lovebirds. Ever since the first European sailors ventured into the balmy blue latitudes of the South Pacific, viewed the jagged and massive slopes of a volcanic summit gradually emerge above the horizon, slipped through a pass in the reef into the calm of a lagoon...