Post #481640 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Sep 5, 2009 11:57 PM

On 2009-09-05 18:51, croe67 wrote:
Go to the Club Bali Hai resort - there's still a Bali Hai boy in residence - at least last year there was.
Go for Bfast, Happy Hour - hang out a while - it has a beautiful view.

F.Y.I. the Bali Hai Boys: Only briefly mentioned by me in the Book of Tiki, they are nevertheless THE quintessential Polynesia drop outs, who, right at the peak of the Tiki craze in 1960, put into practice what everybody else was just dreaming about (and very successfully so!): They quit their mainland jobs and built themselves a native hut in paradise: The first stilt bungalow resort in the South Seas.

http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/Articles.divers/BaliHai/BaliHai.html

A 1962 LIFE article by Eugene Burdick (co-author of "The Ugly American") made them national heros.

Sabu dug up all the photos for it, many unpublished:

http://images.google.com/images?q=paradise+moorea&q=source%3Alife

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-09-06 00:03 ]