Stacey Campbell staceycampbell@yahoo.com
 French Polynesia, 3 Jan 2024  Sunrise approach to Faa'a International Airport on Tahiti.
French Polynesia, 3 Jan 2024
Sunrise approach to Faa'a International Airport on Tahiti. Mo'orea in the foreground.

Apparently when Robert Louis Stevenson first visted Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas he observed “I have watched the morning break in many quarters of the world, and the dawn that I saw with most emotion shone upon the bay of Anaho.”

That was me looking out the window at the Windward Islands (Îles du Vent) of French Polynesia.