Post #336231 by AlienTiki on Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:58 AM

On 2007-10-03 09:24, tikihai wrote:

On 2007-10-03 07:28, filslash wrote: I am interested in Polynesian Voyaging not who has witco chairs.

Concur...
good article, I always thought that was so incredible to make it that far on a raft and to find out now there is evidence that they went back as well.

Not that hard to believe considering prevailing wind and seas. If you were to enter the Alenuihaha channel or the Kealaikahiki you would drift to the next landmass, Society Islands, Tahiti. The ancient Polynesians knew this and would travel to the fertile fishing grounds in the northern Hawaiian Island like Necker. There they would fill there canoes with as much fish as they could. the trip home is all down hill. The Tahitian have been doing this since at least the 12th century, as the Hawaiians claim the pahu drum was introduced to them by the Tahitians around that time. Some 800 years ago at least.

A friend of mine rents dive cameras to tourist here on Maui. One day a renter lost one of his cameras, he thought to Davie Jone's locker. Long story short, 18 months later he gets a call. They found his camera on the shores of Tahiti. It even had a little coral polyp growing on it.

[ Edited by: AlienTiki 2007-10-03 11:13 ]