Papua New Guinea- Dunung

Dunung island was our last stop in Papua New Guinea.   It was a small island, it only took one hour to walk around, less than 50 people live here.

Sweet Kids!
Melanesians contain the gene TYRP1 which gives some children blonde hair, which they outgrow at some point

It took about one hour to walk around the island Dunung

Michaela

He is working on grinding shells which is ground down to round cylinders, strung and than used to make handcrafted jewelry.   This is the foundation of customary jewelry in this area. 

Making shell necklaces

Checking out the lai necklaces which will be used to make necklaces and earrings

Shell Jewelery

Not much to do on the island

Our anchorage

Yellow Tail Corisaption

Sanko Maru-WWII Japanese Mini Submarine
At the beginning of this dive, I dropped in and 5 sharks circling at dinghy.  I deftly climbed back into dinghy.   Gary dove solo for this first 5 minutes than came back up to get me.  

Sanko Maru- WWII Japanese Mini Sub

WWII Japanese ship porthole

3 kids and a coconut coming to trade.   With so many coconuts I started making my own coconut cream - delish!