There’s a good reason why Mutiny on the Bounty actor Marlon Brando stepped foot on Tetiʻaroa in French Polynesia and decided never to leave. With rainforested peaks and coral-fringed lagoons, the ...

Call me jaded, or cynical—or, as all jaded cynics prefer to be described, “a realist”—but when I was told that one of the activities during my six-day Tahiti yachting excursion was “the opportunity to ...