Author: Riki
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Manta Church
awe |ô| noun a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear and/or wonder : they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds awesome |ˈôsəm| adjective extremely impressive and/or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, and/or fear : the awesome power of the atomic bomb. Yesterday I was filled with awe and believe something truly…
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Church
With eyes closed and the singing filling in my ears, I concentrated on the sensation of the sound washing over me….and felt the waves similar to the familiar ocean type, flow over my body. I didn’t know the words to the Fijian songs, nor the words to the sermon but somehow accepted the general message. …
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Vanua Balavu Photo Gallery
Here are some random shots of Vanua Bulavu and the area also known as Bay of Islands…for obvious reasons.
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Niue whales
Here are pix from when Guava was anchored at Niue. A mother and calf showed up to Guava in the morning and hung around for a day. The calf was nursing and curious to our presence. We were cautious and the calf kept engaging with us and the mother seemed indifferent. There was another adult…
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Niue whales continued…
More whale pix from Niue
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Whale harpooning pix (for the BBC series)
Here is a series of photos from the “whale harpooning” as filmed from the whaleboat.
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BBC film shoot
So…do you want to be in the movies? You may want to think before answering this question when delivered from a random person you pass on the street. I accepted and fortunately my experience was wonderful, filled with the process of building interesting props, developing and editing the logistics of the screenplay, acting in as…
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Pix from “whale harpooning” from below
Here is a series of shots “harpooning a whale” with a diver filming from below the surface. Click thru them fast for a ‘video’.
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BBC shoot
Here are a few pix from the BBC shoot.
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O Canada (The Ballad of Sarah Jean)
Sailed up to Rambi in some crazy wind to reconnect with Riada. This island is a different culture and the people are of Banaban decent and speak Banaban and not Fijian as their first language. Their culture is from Banaba and similar to the Kiribati people. The first kid who paddled out to Guava in…
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