Kiribati stevedores loading copra (dried coconut meat) as they have for 150 years in Fanning for shipment to Tarawa to make coconut oil.
Kiribati stevedores loading copra (dried coconut meat) as they have for 150
years in Fanning for shipment to Tarawa to make coconut oil.
Kiribati inter-island steamer, Ne Momi, powering out the pass bound for Washington
Island to the north
Tasty Rainbow Runner caught outside the pass.
"Push bikes" are the most common form of transportation on Fanning.
The islanders are generous. Lorraine holds our catch of the day, a a Trevally
Jack, amid bananas, "ponkin" (local squash) and drinking coconuts.
All food is prepared over open fires. Toae is frying fish cakes made from bone
fish caught overnight in a net in the lagoon.
Materena shinnied up this tree easy as you please to knock down drinking coconuts
(moimotus) for us.
Barracudas like this one I caught in the pass are extremely dangerous for runner
dinghies too.
The "ferry" an aluminum landing craft with open bow carries the kids across
the dangerous pass twice daily.
A "tender" to the NCL cruise ships helps out the locals with repairs and fishing
at Fanning.
This lagoon lobster is a completely different color from those caught outside
in the open ocean but just as delicious.