Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Some time passes. I don’t know how much.  What am I, a watch?  All right, Kalliope leaves Brisbane, Australia for Vanuatu, an island nation about 1,000 miles NE.  We clear in with customs and immigration at Port Vila and take a leisurely tour of the islands.  Why visit Vanuatu? People, friendly welcoming and generous people at every landfall, every village.  Not everyone speaks English but you are never far from someone who does.



 Marie takes us on a guided tour around the island of Efate.



Albert is a friend of a Adam who we met in Alaska twelve or fourteen years ago.  We don't show Adam's picture but Adam spent two Peace Corps years in the tiny village of Mbenenvet, Vanuatu teaching home economics to village girls.  We give Albert the shirt with the logo from Dillingham, our home in Alaska.  We take this pic and send it to Adam who now resides in Switzerland.  Is this a little confusing? 



Norman is the Seventh Day Adventist pastor who was Adam's 
good friend when Adam taught here ten years ago.  I think Pastor
Norman is everyone's friend.



Albert's Mom is anxious to model the traditional costume of her village.



Lena is the first to welcome us to Lamen Bay on Epi Island.  
She takes us to pick pomplemouse in the garden then carves
and shares it with us.



Deb overcomes her shyness to get acquainted with these women passing
the time after church service in Lamen Bay on Epi Island.



The school bus from Lamen Island to the school on Epi Island.


Schoolkids walk across the shallows from school on Malakula to their homes
on tiny Avoka island.  At high tide they paddle dugout canoes.  They know
their tides well.  Hope you can see them in the distance.



Greta and Joseph operate a bakery where we buy two delicious 
familiar looking loaves.  Not those anemic baguettes popular
in this former French colony.



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