More Greenpeace Photos

For some more photos of the tour of Greenpeace's ship Esperanza last weekend, go to... http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/pohnpei/family_200609.html
These photos also show the friends I went with.

Crabs, Ships and Shipwrecks

This is what happened last weekend.

On Friday night we bought mangrove crabs for a big Bawlmer crabfest Saturday noon!

We were celebrating the return to island of Amy Laack, mourning the imminent departure of Jen Burnett and marking the beginning of Ramadan 2006.

Also on Saturday, we toured the Greenpeace ship Esperanza which is visiting Pohnpei.

On Sunday I spent a few hours kayaking around Sokehs Bay photographing shipwrecks.

Below are the photos of the weekend's events.

These mangrove crabs kept me awake all night on Friday as they crawled around trying to escape from the coolers in my kitchen. 

The mangrove crabs wait patiently to be turned into lunch. 

The mangrove crab flails for his life as he is dropped into the boiling cauldron of death. 

Boiled mangrove crabs...yum!!! 

Me on the bridge of Greenpeace's Esperanza. 

A sign in the Greenpeace boat. 

Getting ready to tour the Greenpeace boat Esperanza. 

A photo of my house with the nahs in front of it, taken from the water. 

This shipwreck is closest to my house. I think it was a dredger. Sometimes I see children climbing around on it and jumping off of it into the water. 

Another photo of the dredger. 

I can't figure out what kind of ship this was and what could have happened to it. Perhaps a typhoon? 

I think someone might be living on this shipwreck, because he got up and waved at me after I took this photo. 

This shipwreck actually has two trees growing in it! 

The smallest of the shipwrecks, this looks like it was a wooden yacht at one time. 

This is the most recent shipwreck; it sank in May, 2006. 

Same ship, different angle. 

A small shipwreck near the causeway. 

Another shot of the small wreck near the causeway. 

Kayaking past Greenpeace's Esperanza. 

The Greenpeace Ship. 

Sokehs Rock from water level. 

I took this photo from the mouth of Sokehs Bay in my kayak. 

Yesterday while we were at work, Yum Yum gave birth to octuplets! Nevertheless, she still met us at the car when we arrived home and jumped all over us; what a woman! Some of the puppies still have their umbilical cords. 

Yum Yum birthed the last batch of puppies under a container and the batch before that in the abandoned house next to our house. This time she chose a spot in the jungle along our driveway. 

With red noses like those, we should name all the puppies Rudolph.