Snapshots
HAO Atoll, French Polynesia

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Airbus A320
(TN777)

arrived at FAAA Airport

Sofitel Tahiti Maeva Beach Resotr

Post Office

Eclipse T-shirt

The view from our room

leave from hotel by bus

departure board

ATR72
(VT142)

predawn moon

welcome address

welcome rite

with MFR stuff

received our baggage

set up my equipment

fixed my site

observation rehearsal

set off the GPS clock

latitude and longitude

member's equipment in a room

the open sea

inside the atoll

a relaxing afternoon

noni

BBQ

buffet style dinner

eclipse day's morning

setting my equipment

mirror pinhole image

All systems go!

Behind the clouds, the sun is shining.

the sun was clouded over

after the eclipse

Cheers!
(ⓒH.Oyamada)

pack up my equipment

trucked our baggage

spall of coral

leave from HAO

HAO Atoll

Captain Cook's monument

Gauguin museum

from Tahiti to Japan

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