Pictures from the Tuamotos - Manihi
The Lagoon
The day we arrived
Coconut and Manatee
Lesley posing at the resort beach
Laundry at Ferdnands house
Lesley shopping
The main street
The bakery
School with Rebecca from Manatee
Visiting Ferdinand and Stella
Lunch with Ferdnand and Stella
The boys
The "James Bond" pose
Tom's pockets being filled with pearls
Colin and Jake playing Bionicles. Camilla and Mikela practising the guitar
Visiting the Sector
Rugby on the beach
Preparing Palm Harts
Fishing and fish out in the "sector" including sharks
Camilla and Colin swinging from a palm
Trond swimming with a Manta ray
Colin and Ferdnand scaring fish into the net.
Extracting Copra from the Coconuts
Fishing expeditions
Unicorn fish
Posing with the BIG gear
Tiger shark
Ben catching "Manahi"
Trond w.catch
Visiting Ferdnand and Stellas pearl farm
Camilla and Stella making a "pearl tree" decoration
Cooking the Polynesian way - a hole in the ground and some palm leafs
Coconut crab
Dinner at the pearl farm
Vaitea, Ferdnands son and child
Colin and Camilla relaxing
Rangiroa
Colin in his Star Wars outfit ready to tour the lagoon
Rock and Roll!
Wine production in the Tuamotus! How French can you get without being in France?