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 ...

The gravestone of Hugh Kelley, one of the Bali Hai Boys, in Moorea. After the death of Kelley, the surviving Bali Hai Boys, Jay and Muk, grew close again and put aside old disagreements.

Soon news spread of their success and magazines, including Life, had run articles on the Bali Hai Boys. That was 45 years ago. Two of the three men still reside in Moorea -- Kelley died in July 1998.

In 1962, Life magazine ran a profile of the Bali Hai Boys that helped introduce Americans to French Polynesia. "Suddenly, everyone wanted to see the Bali Hai Boys on Moorea," Kelley's son Hiro ...

The Club Bali Hai Moorea is the Bali Hai Boys’ fourth hotel, dating to 1982, and the only one still remaining in their island empire. It’s definitely rustic, even a little dated, ...