Vanuatu - Ian

I love swimming and snorkelling. The water in Vanuatu is very clear and there are a lot of interesting things to see.

My Dad and I are going out to a good place to snorkel. There were a lot of colourful fish and coral.

We are getting ready to go snorkeling from the Santo golf course which is on the Pacific Ocean.

Guess what we ate for supper? Auntie Carren brought fresh lobster back from an island in Vanuatu called Ambae. A friend went diving the ni...

This is my new kitten named Racoon. The colours on her face make her look like a racoon. She is really cute and playful. My other cat Tig...

Today we had several earthquakes. The largest was 7.8 at about 9 a.m. The centre of the earthquake was 295 km north-west of Luganville, Sa...

This is a beautiful hibiscus flower on the tree in one of the villages we visited in south-east Malekula. Hibiscus flowers are often solid ...

I had a lot of fun playing with the kids in Sason. This photo was taken on the site where the new Baha'i Centre will be built.

We cleared most of the wild vines, shrubs, plants and small trees for the new Baha'i Centre in Sason Village, Aulua. The building shoul...

My uncle is moving a bunch of cut vines that he cleared from the ground. I helped do some cutting too. Wild vines grow all over the jungle...

A group of us worked hard with bush knives and an axe to clear vines, bushes and a few trees off land so that a new Baha'i Centre can be...

The fisherman caught the fish early that morning. Our host sold the fish individually to local villagers for 20 to 150 vatu each, equal to ...

On Malakula we ate fresh fish most days. I ate tuna and malat in Sason Village and Lemap. I also ate a small shiny silver fish caught and ...

This store is well stocked. It just received a shipment of goods from Port Vila. It is the only store in the village. Over five days me a...

This is a Cooperative Store also called a co-op. Sason Village did not have its own store so most days we walked to the next village to buy ...

We walked to one village on the road and walked back on the beach.

These are some of our new friends at Lanfifit. The large rock in the background is a symbol and a landmark for Lanfitfit Village.

We rested a little when we arrived at Lanfitfit and talked with some local people.

This is a picture of my Dad and Peter. The tree on the right is growing on top of a big rock along the ocean. We saw it as we were walking...

We walked to the next village called Lanfitfit. Walking was the only option to get there during the day. The walk took about one hour each...

Here are a few of the kids we played with. There are many more kids but they are not in this photo.

There is a nice clean freshwater river that flows through the village. We raced our boats down the river and splashed around in the water w...

Rex made me and my cousins boats to play with. The wood is from a Natangura tree. The boats are light and strong.

We stayed four nights in the two-room house above where I am walking with Quentin. The dining house is the smaller building to the right. ...

Joslyn cooked us fresh fish for dinner almost every day. The small kitchen house is behind.