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Mangroving
11:51 AM, Thursday, 22 March, 2007
It is a well-known fact that mangroves are very important for giving us fishies and crabs to eat. They provide a lovely safe place for the small fishies and crabs to grow up in, as well as convenient places in which to catch larger and more edible fishies and crabs. So that we can eat them.
With this in mind, I attended the Save PNG World Forestry Day mangroving expedition at Taurama beach, about 20 minutes out of Port Moresby.
It was a beautiful day, with plenty of volunteers to put the hundreds of mangrove seeds into biodegradable tapioca bags, and then put them in cages and rock walls and such so that they don't float away.
We ate watermelons, ran along the beach, saved the world and gasped at how there is no such thing as an ugly Papua New Guinean child. They're all so lovely, even when their pants are on inside-out.
We got back to Port Moresby exhausted and sunburned, and very soon an enormous storm broke with thunder and lightening and torrential rain, giving us a lovely fireworks show. The only thing we could do was jump in the pool.
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I once went with A and Marion to Taurama beach and yeah I have to admit that the kids there are so cute. A and Marion knows that fromtheir previous visit and this time they brought Twisties and lollies to give to the kids.
Someone in your last photo looks familiar.
By the way, how is Australia and how are you dealing with the culture shock?
Posted by: Paul | March 25, 2007 12:25 PM
It looks idyllic.
How's home treating ya?
Posted by: Problemchildbride | March 27, 2007 3:18 AM
Paul - who do you know there (apart from me of course, looking gorgeous, second from left)?
PCB - Home's treating me great, when home isn't a hospital taking blood test after blood test...
Posted by: Carolyn | March 29, 2007 11:12 PM
The one in yellow looks familiar. Does she have a tattoo on her right arm? Andrew and I met her when we went to see Al Gore's film at Moresby Arts Theatre.
Posted by: Paul | April 10, 2007 1:55 PM
Hey Paul! Yes, that's Jen who organised the screening of "An Inconvenient Truth". Cool lady. Check out her blog at www.savepng.blogspot.com
Posted by: Carolyn | April 10, 2007 4:09 PM