http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEfoOLo4FU&feature=plcp
My video link of the explantion of the traditional Polynesian style of cooking.
Wonderful lunch at Patrick's Motu! Grilled lobster and fish. A huge meal prepared in a pit buried in the sand with poi, a suckling pig! The food was just great - but to watch it prepared in a traditional way was cool. We actually sat on a picnic table in the water. Champagne included!
snorkling with the manta rays!
small reef tip sharks below - my video of the sharks:
About Patrick
Born in Bora Bora in 1964, Heifara Patrick TAIRUA grows up in a large family, where working means survival. All children take part in the daily tasks, such as working in the plantations, fishing, coffee picking and processing, pandanus work (for vegetal roofs), and many other traditional manual tasks.
The father, a cultivator widely involved in the community, is considered by everyone as the Chief of the village of Anau. He’s the last one to occupy this social position in the community. He’s a man very close to nature, and he shares this passion with his son Patrick during long fishing nights.
Patrick is 13 years old when he starts dancing with the local group, representing the village at the famous annual HEIVA, a contest where all the dance troupes of Bora Bora take part. Excellent dancer, Patrick learns gradually the fire dance.
He finishes school and military service at 18 years old, and starts working in all sorts of jobs, from construction to truck driving, until the day he becomes a tourist guide and bus driver, his first job in the tourism field. He will never go back to the tool box!
His thirst for learning takes him to Papeete where he starts, at 25, a professional program which includes Polynesian history and culture courses, ecology, geology and astronomy. He comes back to Bora Bora more motivated than ever and becomes quickly the activity manager of a hotel. For him, it’s a great opportunity to explore different type of activities, such as the lagoon excursion, one of his favorite.
Beside this, he creates his own dance troupe and starts his first professional shows. He also has a strong interest in the sacred symbols of Polynesian marriage. This will lead him to celebrate the vows renewal by himself, for the couples visiting the island. In his own way, he gives to their love a touch of Polynesian Energy. The couples feel that and trust him.
After 5 years, he needs a change, and leaves the hotel industry. He becomes a 4X4 Safari Guide for a private company. The hilly trails of Bora Bora soon have no more secrets for him. Patrick loves the mountain and this passion becomes as strong as the one he feels for the lagoon.
At the beginning of the new millennium, the idea of having his own enterprise is stronger than ever, and finally becomes reality at the end of the year 2001. How to make a choice between the lagoon and the mountain? Impossible! The outrigger canoe is built, and the 4X4 Land Rover arrives a few months later. Between the land and the sea, Patrick travels from one world to another. Limits? For what reason?!
It is with great passion that he, today, pursues his career spreading his love of Bora Bora to all visitors that cross his path.
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