SOUTH SEAS TROWBRIDGE EXPEDITION

Tomorrow my wife and I will embark on our most exciting Trowbridge expedition to date. It all started when I received a tip from a noted New Zealand archeologist who is an expert in ancient Oceania cultures. He provided me with strong evidence of long-forgotten Trowbridge shrew civilizations in a number of remote South Sea Islands.

It has been my theory that, going backwards across many centuries, Trowbridge civilization began in the Mongolian Steppes, and in the mountainous regions of China. Over eons of time, the shrews of old “leap frogged” to the Americas by way of the South Sea archipelagoes. Their means of travel may have been as stowaways on human sailing vessels. Or they may have used their hot air balloons as a mode of trans-island transport, as has been discussed in previous Trowbridge Chronicles episodes.

Our research team will be visiting some of the South Pacific’s most remote islands. At present our sights are set on Aitu Taki, and possibly Mangaia, two islands where tiny mysterious petroglyphs have been found on black volcanic boulders (see pictures) at the edge of the jungle, near the lagoon shoreline.

I hope to bring back and present some exciting photographic evidence that would advance my Leap frog Theory. The next Trowbridge post should be an exciting one. Stay tuned.

Perhaps these photos look familiar. If they do, it’s because this is where Survivor Cook Islands was filmed. In a few days we’ll be standing on the very same remote islands, Paputa and Moturakau, where the Survivors endured their grueling 39 day challenge. Several Trowbridge petroglyphs have been found on these and other tiny “motus”, part of the Aitu Taki atoll.