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| Photo: Jesper Mortensen Fanning Island sunset - in an earlier post I tried to describe the sunset from our boat, anchored in the lagoon of Tabuaeran Atoll. Well, this was what I was talking about... amazing! ALOHA FROM HAWAI'I!!! After 17 days at sea I have arrived to land. Ahh, it feels so good to be vertical. I'm staying with my nani (beautiful) friend Arielle on Maui. It all happened pretty quickly, we arrived to a Honolulu sunset, stayed the night on the boat in port, and the next day I flew to Maui. Anyway, will write more about the trip soon, but just wanted to get some pictures up. Theres been a lot of writing going on with this blog and not so many visuals, so enjoy.... |
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| Photo: Chad Hamilton Life on Sea Dragon - dinner at 20 degrees poses oh so many fun challenges. Be careful for waves over the bow of the boat or else chicken and veg becomes salty chicken soup . |
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| Photo: Rachel Morrison Mother fishing boats anchored off the main beach on Christmas Island. Was a huge shock to be anchored next to these beasts. I don't think it matters what light these vessels are portrayed in, they are still horrid and so out of place. |
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| Photo: Hannah Spyksma Just a typical scene at the wharf on Christmas Island - the stench of drying, rotting fish could quite often be found lurking through the streets. Refrigeration is hard to come by here, so fish was dried and salted for preservation. Tasty? Not to sure... |
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| Photo: Hannah Spyksma Customs and immigration, island style. This boat of 'officials' rocked up to Sea Dragon an hour and a half after the agreed time. We couldn't leave until they handed us departure paperwork. I think their tardiness has something to do with the fact it was a Sunday morning after payday... so they were all rather inebriated. Was an experience. |
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| Photo: Hannah Spyksma The rough and beautiful windward side of Christmas Island. Instead of rocks, the beach is lined with coral and an unfortunate amount of washed up plastic. |
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| Photo: Cathy Romeyn We were invited for a traditional Kiribati lunch by the teachers of a local school. This maneaba (meeting hut) is raised about a metre and a half off the ground. It's built completely using local materials including pegs and string made from coconut palm trees. Principal Raine Aretaateta sits to the left. In Kiribati society, women can hold positions of power in the workplace, but men are still boss at home. |
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| Photo: Hannah Spyksma Lagoon view - taken from the back of a truck driving along the (only) road on one side of Fanning . |
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| Photo: Hannah Spyksma Kia Kaha New Zealand 2010 - see if you can spot it. Fanning Island is literally in the middle of nowhere so when we arrived to see this, it was pretty darn cool. The lagoon had two visible shipwrecks in it, they just become part of the scenery after awhile. Aparently wrecks are a pretty normal sight in plenty of the other atolls the Pangaea crew visited as well. |
