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By Keith DeGreen

Ling Tebang’s exquisite mahogany storyboards hang in the lobbies of the Pacific Islands’ most distinguished financial institutions and luxury resorts.

His Breadfruit Story carving tells a particularly compelling story.

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A final Sunset Cruise in Palau

I flew from Palau to Hong Kong yesterday. But the evening before my departure we were joined by many of our new friends on Palau for a sunset cruise aboard The Global Adventure – and what a perfect evening it was!

Our twenty-plus guests included citizens not only of Palau, and people of Polynesian descent, but also of Japan, Ireland, and Sweden, and – of course – the U.S.

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View the Palau album here

View the Hong Kong album here

I own the early mornings here. The crew sleeps in. Captain Wolf will rise in an hour. It is quiet ashore. Only a rooster crowing somewhere behind Sam’s punctuates the morning stillness.

Nearby I see a few of the limestone cupcake-shaped Rock Islands, their bottoms just above the water, forming a perfectly horizontal lip, beneath which the tides have eaten away some of the stone, creating a pedestal on which each sits and above which a riot of mahogany, teak, and palm trees, and seemingly all things green crowd together to form a dense old-growth jungle canopy under which one could, with effort, climb or hike.
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View the photos here

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