On Moorea, we stayed at the Club Bali Hai Hotel, which sits on Cook’s Bay and has breathtaking views of the bay and the peaks of the island.

In 2005, I went to French Polynesia to write a story about the last two surviving Bali Hai Boys, the trio of Newport Beach guys who chucked it all to move to Moorea in June 1960 and ended up creati… ...

In 2005, I went to French Polynesia to write a story about the last two surviving “Bali Hai Boys,” the trio of Newport Beach guys who chucked it all to move to Moorea in the early 1960s and ...

Moorea is a happy median between the sprawl of the main island of Tahiti and the isolation and high prices of destination resorts on Bora Bora and other outlying islands. Club Bali Hai is a ...