Papua New Guinea- Ninigo Islands- Island of Longan

New Guinea is the second largest island in the world, after Greenland.  It is a wild land of vast tropical swamps and mangroves, thick forests and remote highlands.   For Sailing Vessels going to the mainland in Papua New Guinea is not safe so we created a route on the out islands.   

These out islands are very remote and people are accustomed to being self-sufficient and live off the land.  The people are friendly, they speak their indigenous language Seimat and English.   Culturally they are reserved and accustomed to hanging out without having much conversation.    Every island that we anchored at seem to peak the locals interests.  Kids, canoes and coconuts at every stop.  

On Longan Island we spent some time with Oscar and his wife Karen.   His son Daniel actually hitched a ride with us when we sailed from Mal to Longan.   If you can believe this, there is a small cruise ship that makes a stop at Longan.  The cruisers go to shore to do some beach games and Oscar organizes sailing on their local boats and sailboat racing. 

For my intrepid friends who like cruise ships here is the link
https://www.truenorth.com.au/set-sail-in-island-paradise-on-the-true-north/

Rolands Son

Boy and his homemade sailing canoe.   These islanders are awesome sailors

Kitchen ( inside there is a piglet and chicken sleeping, little do they know!)

A daily chore on every island, grind the coconut

Pigs life on the island

Canoe and Rainbow

Rolands House

This is where they take the taro root and mash it into flour ( alot more coarse than an industry processed flour)