the Pacific off the beaten Track

Monday 9 and 16 August at 9:30 p.m.

We follow the wonderful adventure of Elisabetta Eordegh e Carlo Auriemma with The Pacific off the Beaten Track, on Y&S, Monday 9 and 16 August at 9:30 p.m. They sail in the Pacific Ocean, exploring a new course between forgotten islands and uncontaminated nature on board of “Barca Pulita”.
Their first stop is in the West islands of Samoa, where Polynesian ethnic group is predominant. After, the boat heads for a long crossing towards Fiji Islands. After different sailing days, Fiji Islands are only to 150 miles, but because of bad weather conditions, the crew stops near to Welagilala, an isolated atoll in the middle of the ocean. When weather conditions are better, Welagilala is a true paradise: a coral reef which delimits a calm, clean and uncontaminated lagoon, with only one little island inhabited by crabs, birds and a lot of marine species. It is an unknown place also for people living in the Fiji Islands. Among shallow waters, canals and little islands, “Barca Pulita” goes ahead towards the most external islands of the Fiji where an extraordinary phenomenon happens. In a precise day, the eighth day after the full moon in October, water is plenty of “little dancing worms”. It is the “Raising of the Balolo”, a unique and extraordinary phenomenon that is fascinating for naturalists and magic for people living in the Fiji. In order to escape to the cyclones’ season, the expedition heads for the North-East direction towards Tuvalu, formed by beautiful atolls, fated to disappear because of global warming.