| Easter Island - Rapa Niue - Isla de Pascua (Chile) | ||||||||||
| March 2009 | ||||||||||
| Alex goes in mid-ocean on our passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Claire is thinking about swimming too, passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| swimming off-shore, passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| The Captain keeps on eye on his swimming crew, passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Hamachi swimming with Alex, passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Green cookies for St. Patrick's Day, passage to Easter Island | ||||||||||
| We sailed past these moai on the way to the anchorage, Hanga Roa, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Canoe practice at dusk, Hanga Roa, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| The dinghy landing is in and to the left, Hanga Roa, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Alex and the harbor moai - you can see Fafner on the far left - Hanga Roa, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Overlooking the crater, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| What's left of the priest's house, Orongo village at the edge of the crater, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Alex liked this sign she found behind the Priest's house, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Petroglyphs, Orongo Village, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| cows, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Toppled moai, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Road-side cross, is it a shrine?, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Rano Raraku, the quarry where the moai were carved, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| view from the quarry, Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| moai, Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| This was our favorite one, Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Holding up the moai! Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| restored moai viewed from Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| many moai on the hillside, Rano Raraku, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| closer look at the restored moai, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| Wild horses near restored moai. If you look carefully 3 horses in from the left,you can juuust make out the guy throwing rocks to herd the horses, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| wild horses, Easter Island | ||||||||||
| view toward the south and Hanga Picka, from the anchorage, Hanga Roa, Easter Island | ||||||||||