Post #147039 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 3:07 PM

That'd be this one...

Yaaah!

..Filslash, you are the local Tiki agent that has to find out about that Tiki carver of those modern grey Tikis!
I somewhere remember a hunch that the one on the back of Exotica III stood in some kind of "Fern dell" park...some garden or park with Fern in the name that was a tourist attraction on Oahu.

Johntiki, no idea as to the whereabouts of the Matson cruise ships. Maybe they retrofitted them into container ships. More likely though they ended up in some 3rd world country.
When I took the old ARANUI on my trip to the Marquesas, I found out it was build and first put in service in Bremerhafen, near my hometown of Hamburg, in the 50s. And in Papeete Harbour that year they had moored two humongeous city-block size cruise ships of a line that had gone bankrupt after the 9/11 travel paranoia. The fuel alone for these suckers must have cost a fortune. They just sat there, nobody knew what to do with them.

My sister recently photographed the wreck of a stranded freighter from my grandfather's Kirsten line on the Southern tip of Patagonia. There are websites of ship history fans that report findings of alienated ocean liners in exotic places, like China. Lost their URL though, sorry.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-03-16 10:07 ]