We are about to descend a VERY, VERY steep "path" (that's an overstatement!) down the rocky cliff to the beach.
In any other country, this path would be deemed TOO DANGEROUS and be forbidden!
... with Brenda, my host!
Polynesian seafarers left Mangareva around AD 800 in search of quality stone for vital tools, and found success on Pitcairn. Trade flourished between the islands and settlers made rough stone gods, carved human, animal and geometric images on rock canvasses, created burial sites and left many artefacts. The Bounty mutineers arrived in 1790 and found their temple platforms, petroglyphs and stone tools giving evidence (and confirmed by Marshall Weisler), that Pitcairn had formerly supported an ancient Polynesian population, most probably from Mangareva. The mutineers destroyed most of these “inappropriate” artefacts but left some 300 breadfruit trees.
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Pirtcairn is SO far from EVERYWHERE !
Heather's house is a jewel, with a magnificent view...
NB - She's originally from New Zealand.
BTW, this is the finest home on the island.
Many other homes are much more "basic"...
