Getting Away from Atoll

It's about time I put up some photos of my two weeks on Ailuk Atoll in the Marshall Islands last August.

Here are some local children:

 

There are no motorboats on Ailuk. This is Rice, the owner of this sailboat. I paid him a pack of cigarettes to sail me to the northern-most island of the lagoon. On the way he did some fishing.

 

Taken from the northern-most island of the atoll, this photo looks south toward the rest of the atoll islands.

 

I stayed on the second floor veranda of a house overlooking the lagoon. Here is the view of a sunset from my veranda: