The trailing cyclone winds made paddle boarding dangerous. The equatorial heat and humidity couple into clouds. A thunderclap and the warm mist curls every hair and condensates on the skin extracting heat. The salty Read More …
The stumped remnants of the Mangrove trees rise above the white sand like burnt stumps. Roots returning to nurture the intertidal garden. Each stump a five fingered blessing reaching open handed into the sand. Seeking Read More …
A stilted shack at the tide line is a memory of times past. Kiri island is untouched in that there are no wrappers, no bottles, no scarring of human presence — except the shack. On Read More …
The bold colouring of the local hotel on Banda Neira foreshadows an emerging linguistic opportunity. The restaurant was far from a dive…. It was welcome to the eels and reef life. The warriors emerged from Read More …
In the sheltered waters around Arguni Island the hand prints and sea creatures on the limestone walls are more than evidence of a presence long before our time. On first seeing the hand I was Read More …
A cascading waterfall is muralled on the wall. A gathering of drops from dew, drizzle, diversion and dreams rolling like an enlarged hourglass opening a cornucopia of possibility. There, on that leaf, a rainbow drop Read More …
There is a long and sometimes sordid history of the the Dutch seeking to establish a trade monopoly around Ambon, Indonesia, and aside from the seizure of agricultural products (fish, beef jerky coffee) the local Read More …