• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Can confirm, I lived in the middle of it (Polynesia), first airports (Auckland and LA) were 6 and 8h flights away.

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        11 months ago

        It’s fine, it depends which island you go to, the big ones have supermarkets, restaurants, etc etc. You can eat almost anything but will pay a premium for stuff that gets imported by plane. If it’s one of the smaller/less populated ones then you need to get your groceries by the weekly plane delivery and otherwise a lot of coconut and fish.

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      11 months ago

      first airports (Auckland and LA) were 6 and 8h flights away

      It must have been a real pain in the ass catching those flights without an airport. Did people get shot out of a cannon and hope to grab onto the wing? Did their baggage also get cannoned?

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        No no the flights are caught, but with giant butterfly nets, you have to jump on the back of the plane like it’s a rodeo and get in that way, it’s fine after the first couple times you get the hang of it.