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A high tide begins dumping water and sand over the ocean side onto Tarawa's thoroughfare and down...
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Uploaded on Mar 19, 2007
A ford
Islets can often be reached like so -- walking across the water. Here we are walking across...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
Sea turtle
You'll often find these sea turtles a good distance from where they should be (water). They'll be...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
Boat house
A man established two giant corrugated tin sheds to upgrade his boat building enterprise from small...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
What?
The only street lights in Kiribati, posted outside of another lodge. They're not plugged in. But they're stunning.
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
North Tarawa 'hotel'
Just on the other side of Tarawa -- on North Tarawa -- is a very well-run lodge. It consists...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
New Year's bonfire
Kate and I celebrated the turn of the New Year before all of you did. We did this on an east-facing...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
Kitana
This was my first experience riding a second person on my bike. It's appropriate that she was fifty,...
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Uploaded on Mar 3, 2007
Clams
A man arrived to fulfill the field portion of his M.A. in aquaculture, and began harvesting clams off...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Nei Mataburo's deck
This is the deck of the ship that joined with us. It's smaller than our own, but largely the same...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Blue streak
We couldn't figure out what the bright blue streak was separating the dark ocean from land -- it was...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Arorae coast
These are the stones that my subjects in one of the last photos slipped on (the compass stones of Arorae).
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Catholic church on Nikunau
This is the Catholic church on a dominantly protestant island. It looks admirable from a distance...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Nei Mataburo
The Nei Mataburo (Miss Appears-like-) preparing to join itself to our own ship. We met off the...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
A bridge
This bridge connects two islets of Kuria, our last stop on the way back to Tarawa. The water flows...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Manic Panic
Evelyn, our host on Nikunau, had a bottle of Manic Panic hair dye ("Live Fast and Dye Hard"...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Lakes on coral atolls
Natural lakes (as in lakes, not temporary floods or extensions of the ocean) are rare in Kiribati. ...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
Eating on the fish
Some meals were good, this one happened after we'd already begun an unplanned trip to a last island. ...
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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2007
