Showing posts with label French Polynesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Polynesia. Show all posts

Monday, March 6, 2023

Mapping our ways

While some folk may find this intrusive I love the monthly Timeline update I receive from Google that tells me where I have been in the preceeding month.

My February Travel Map

I receive this  "because I turned on Location History, a Google Account-level setting that creates Timeline, a personal map of my visited places, routes and trips."  In a nod to security I have this data set so that only I can access it. 

While it may miss those rare journeys I take without my mobile phone the app keeps a record of most of the places I have visited in Australia since 2013 and internationally since 2017. My all-time data report does not therefore list all the places in countries like India, Tibet and Egypt that I have been!

Some of the places I have visited since 2013


I try to label all my photos each night when travelling but sometimes I can't remember the spelling or correct names of particular sites, Google plots these for me so I can apply accurate labels later. It also helps when I am trying to date some random photos. I also use this data as a reference to update my Google travel map.

Being able to look at a map of places I have been for each day since 2013 is a great way to reminiscence and, for a blogger, provides many ideas for stories. 

Following is a map of our recent pre-cruise day when we hired a car in Tahiti and drove as far as we could around the perimeter of the island. These maps can be expanded to show fine detail.

A Day's driving in Tahiti


Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Self Drive

We grabbed a rental car today and circumnavigated the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia  We saw caves, churches, maares, monuments, sea, storms, statues and surfies.

While we saw many magnificent landscapes we were surprised that there were few white sandy beaches.

We started out at an historic site
























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