Its a well known fact that the Polynesians considered the coast of Chili a premier vacation spot ....
Where do people in Hawaii go for vacation?.........
> Its a well known fact that the Polynesians considered the coast of Chili a premier vacation spot ....
I still find that the ease with which the stone-age Polynesian civilizations seemed to glide across the vast Pacific ocean astounding: yet the evidence is there, for all to see, that they did. Deliberately.
Imagine the effort it would have taken to mount a Polynesian trans-Pacific expedition. To chop down a huge tree, hollow it out with tools made out of rock, carve it with elaborate carvings, make it thoroughly sea-worthy (the Polynesians invented catamarans and trimarans), equip it with food and water and weaponry and a bunch of burly warriors of both sexes to row, then launch it into the Blue Horizon for points uncharted and unknown...
...and a couple years later have it return accurately to home base?
It is not a mission I’d want to undertake, even with modern equipment. No thanks!
Polynesian civilization was a fair bit more clever than we have been willing to grant, to date. They knew stuff about crossing huge expanses of water that we still haven’t figured out. And, as each day passes, this knowledge becomes more and more extinct!
*DieHard*