Who could resist?
Winter has settled in here in Sydney, and I’d really rather be on a beach in tropical Vanuatu. This thatched roof would give enough shade to keep the cocktails cool. 😉
June Squares: Roof If you have a photo (or two!) of a roof, join in!
Tropical garden through the shutters
Enticing glimpses of a tropical garden are visible through these shutters in Vanuatu.
Baskets woven from dried grass, on sale for tourists.
I’m slowly working through the backlog of photos I took in Vanuatu last November. Processing these images of woven baskets and ropework today, I thought they fit in well with Weekly Photo Challenge theme of intricate.
These woven baskets are a common sight, used by locals to carry a variety of goods. This photo was taken at the main market in Port Vila.
Looking up at the bedroom ceiling in my resort (Eratap Beach Resort). I love how the craftsmen took the time to weave intricate patterns with the rope.
Shadows on a landing, Goa.
“Geometric: using straight lines and simple shapes, for example circles or squares.” Cee’s Black and White Challenge this week is all about geometric shapes.
Sydney Opera House during the Vivid festival 2014.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (detail).
Woven hut (and mangoes!), Vanuatu.
Eratap Beach Resort, on the island of Etafe. Each villa has its own thatched beach cabana.
After three days of torrential rain and gale force winds, of broken umbrellas and wet feet, of disrupted transport, fallen trees and floods, of a storm billed variously as “Sydney’s storm of the decade” or even (eek!) “Sydney’s storm of the century”, my thoughts turn longingly to the sunny tropical paradise of Vanuatu. Memories of my holiday there led, of course, to recollections of the devastation wrought on that island nation by the recent tropical storm, which put Sydney’s storm into perspective. But my mind turns to pleasanter times.
Outrigger canoe, Lelepa Island. The snorkelling here was astounding: calm clear water, healthy and vibrant coral, a myriad of colourful fish, all accessible from the beach.
Sunset from my own stretch of beach.
Houses like this are not designed to withstand winds of 320 km (200 miles) an hour.
Like so many people who have been to this beautiful Pacific Ocean country, I am shocked and saddened at the destruction Vanuatu has suffered. The people of Vanuatu urgently need our help.
These two boys are separated by far more than the physical distance between Sydney and Vanuatu. Caught unawares, neither knew I was photographing them so neither is posing for the camera.
