The journey to this island, famously described by a National Geographic explorer, takes longer than getting to the moon. But bpnomad couldn’t resist—he needed to know what happened when you fell off the map.
here are no stories of pirates in the South Pacific. While the Caribbean contains thousands of islets where marauding ships could find a sandy beach to stash their stolen treasure, the South Pacific is mostly water—punishing amounts of navy blue water. A desert of ocean, really.
Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson all played Fletcher Christian in three separate major motion pictures.
A white van picked me up before 4 a.m. and shuttled me to Tahiti’s international airport, where I waited for my flight to the other side of French Polynesia, a thousand miles away. Mangareva was my destination, the largest island in the Gambier archipelago—scattered remnants of an ancient volcanic blast that carve the southeasterly boundary of the region.
The freighter wasn’t scheduled to depart until the very end of the day, which gave me plenty of time to explore my surroundings. Each cabin had three beds—two small, stacked berths and a larger double mattress separated by a tiny pedestal sink that came with explicit orders from the captain: “If you’re going to be sick, please do it in a bucket instead.” The professor and I had been assigned to the same room. I offered him the comfort of the double bed, which he took without hesitation, and I organized my belongings on the bottom bunk, certain that I would fall from the top when we encountered rougher water.
I was suddenly reacquainted with my taco-lasagna dinner. It didn’t look much different from the serving tray.Pale and green, I sheepishly sought out the captain, who handed me a bucket even before I could muster up the energy to ask for one. I then climbed down to the lowest deck and curled myself up in my bunk. The professor was already asleep, presumably lulled into unconsciousness by the steady motoring of his own flatulence.
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