Tahiti is beautiful, but also very humid. My note on the picture says I had to keep wiping off the camera lens, then my glasses, then the lens again when we were outside. Having grown up in San Francisco, this was my first experience with real humidity, or actually any humidity at all.

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In 1987 we stopped in Tahiti on our way home after our two-year posting to Canberra. Needless to say, it was quite a change from Australia and a pleasant interlude before facing life in Washington, DC.

View of Papeete from Hotel Tahara’a, posted earlier: