Easter Island Continued


 This photo is from the  Moai quarry.  The head is exposed while the remainder of this gigantic statue is underground.  

At the time of these statues were carved with rocks around 1400, it is estimated there were between 3,000-9,000 inhabitants on this island.  The Rapa Nui completed approximately 900 of these effigies and moved them throughout the island as much as three miles .  The largest Moia is 33 feet tall and weighs 81.5 tons.  How did the Rapa Nui reallocate their human resources to accommodate such a monumental task when they needed nearly everyone to constantly work on providing food, shelter and clothing?


Easter Island shows many different shades of green and crime is nearly non existent.


French Polynesia is our next stop after a week at sea so my posts will not be as frequent.  

“Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point “in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.” 
― Richard Matheson, Somewhere In Time



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