haapape

Updated: May 2, 2025

We left behind Paintua, Taunoa, Arahim, Arue and Haapape, and came to a shore where no reef checked the waves in a yeasty line a mile or less from the beach. The breakers roared and beat upon a black shore, strangely different from the Tahitian strand that I had seen.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.