Huahine

Antoine's view

A group of good sized whales were jumping out of the ocean, splashing water on their way down, in front of a panorama of jagged mountains : it's the only picture I had kept from the first time I sailed past the Island of Huahine, the easternmost of the Leeward islands, the first time I sailed around the world, in board the schooner Om, in 1977 I had sworn to myself I would some day make a long stop in this island I had missed; Years later, in 1986, I reached Polynesia again, and it's Huahine I have chosen : I has enchantwed me.

In fact, I've spent weeks and months in the perfect anchorage I had found for myself, a t the south end of the island's western shore of the island, where the lagoon stops being navigable, in the bay of Avea; weeks and months living a peaceful life on board my small sailboat Voyage, fishing, maintaining the boat, dreaming, but also, working, writing, composing.

It's in Huahine that I wrote a song"Touchez pas à la mer" (Do not hurt the sea) that had some success in France, and it's there I started a dynamics that led me during the past eighteen years, to shoot over 15 documentary films : one of them, of course, passes by Huahine.
Huahine probably remains the most authentic , the most preserved of the high islands of Polynesia; Vanilla is cultivated, and one can find numerous "marae", these vast open air temples of the ancient Polynesians.
It's the island where one of the most famous artists in Polynesia, Bobby Holcomb, a painter, a sculptor and a singer, had chosen to live.

It's an island full of legends (it's semi-god Hiro's canoe that is said to have separated the island in two). it's, above all, an island where life is pleasant, and I would be surprised if, during the coming months, the bows of my catamaran were not to enter again Huahine's lagoon to rediscover the sweetness othe anchorage at Avea.

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