New Zealand North Island Photo Extravaganza
To complement the South Island photos I hope you enjoyed a couple of days ago, here are more pictures in random order to inspire you with...
New Zealand South Island Photo Extravaganza
It's hard to depict the simple and profound awe I felt in the South Island of New Zealand, but here are a few tries... I am posting a...
I Build My First Boat
This is Punga, a Spindrift 10, my first boatbuilding project and the new tender to the boat I live on, as well the biggest toy aboard. ...
Tropical Packaging Solutions
Organic… Biodegradable… Locally derived without the use of vehicles… Low cost… Hand-made… Practical… Beautiful… Open source… Disposable…...
Being White-Being Native... Being in Vanuatu
In Vanuatu white values are OUT and island values are IN… generally speaking. When they gained independence from European colonial...
From the Sublime to the Military
In need of laundry and a vegetable market, we pull into Luganville on Espiritu Santo island, Vanuatu’s second largest town, and a tiny,...
Delving into the Shadows and the Light
Malekula is one of the larger islands in Vanuatu, and at its south-eastern side there is a smattering of small islands called the...
Tropical Delight Follows Tropical Surprise
Approaching by water, Epi Island presents roiling cloud erupting over its high hills, and a vigorous choking vine erupting upward from...
Decreased Island Loveliness, and Places Where Loveliness Lives
The direct correlation between increased contact with the developed world/ its moral and economic systems, and the increased...
The World as It Used to Look
Not wanting exactly to refer to Hollywood nonsense, but my first close glimpses of Erromango from the water as we approached started the...
