Coco Cracking, Market Day & Makahiki Festival (31 JAN 2009)

Today is a NUI (big) day. We've got the Saturday Market to visit, where a promised Tahitian vanilla bean will be changing hands and the famed Coconut Grater will be returned to its rightful owner, our friend Sally. Bur first, Steve cracks us a breakfast coconut:



And then it was off to the market. Here is Camilla with Richard - one of our friendly hosts for the month we've been here:


A few shots of the market and downtown (the Makahiki videos will follow just below):



and now, the MAKAHIKI Games:

Intro:



Games:



Back home to recover. Will post tonight's music separately...
A hui hou!

Kepani & Camilla