Saturday, October 15, 2016

Report #21 Fanning Island October 14, 2016 Thursday Partly sunny & 84 degrees Part #2 Of 3 80 Pictures

The photos continue…….

 

 

 

Swaying palms

 

Lagoon setting

 

Shallow waters are perfect for seaweed production

 

Locals coming to see all of us

 

A hut with a view

 

Another bedroom

 

Hidden in the trees

 

A well outside of a hut

 

Crude, but it works

 

A village

 

Lagoon on one side, Pacific on the other

 

Coconut palms

 

Many shades of the lagoon

 

A palm blossom

 

Registered voters of the island

 

A games chicken

 

Tethered to a line

 

Diane and Howard from Concord, California, taking a ride

 

Cute dancing girls

 

Showing off their dance moves

 

Most every yard had a few pigs

 

Very basic huts

 

Watch for falling coconuts

 

Little girls enjoying chocolate candies

 

Hey, what's this?  The same shirt???

 

Pretty setting

 

The boys were cute too

 

A resting hut

 

Seaweed cultivation

 

Local boat

 

Boys will be boys

 

Vying for attention

 

A good pastime for the locals

 

Sweet

 

All school kids wear uniforms here

 

The bowls were nice

 

Many treasures

 

The fellows liked the knives

 

Every piece was unique

 

Staying in the shade

 

Open field

 

The most tables we have ever seen

 

Calm waters of the lagoon

 

A road to somewhere

 

All the knives were dated 2016

 

A shed

 

Cooking facilities left over from another cruise line

 

Now abandoned

 

Up as high as they can get

 

The William Greig Memorial

 

Edmund Fanning arrived in 1798

 

A few spots with seats

 

View of the channel

 

The ship waits

 

Swift current

 

The monument stands tall

 

A place to swim

 

Welcome dancers

 

The tender landing

 

The boats kept coming

 

Many items were sold today

 

Many people here today

 

The new pier landing

 

Saying hello and goodbye

 

On our way back

 

A few of the waiters had shore duty

 

Sailboat

 

The only place to swim

 

A boat house

 

Greig Monument

 

Good spot for fishing

 

Tide goes in and out

 

Arriving back home

 

Lines for the tenderboats

 

Off-loading the passengers was slow going

 

A boat being lifted

 

One of the last boats

 

Boat drivers had to be skilled to get through the rapids

 

Once through the channel, the waves were deep

 

The channel