Sina, Dan, Faiva, Donna, Vave and Olepa waiting outside the government building as Dan & Donna headed out to assignment after training in Nukulaelae, Tuvalu. October 1982
About 4pm nearly everday young Tuvaluan children would go out and try to catch land crabs for their families consumption. They were so quick and skillful at the task and now and again would let me have a hand at it, but seldom did I ever catch...
Whenever the seaplane came to the island...usually twice a week, the children would run through the village announcing they had just heard it flying overhead. They would scream "Si bi eaa" for "Sea Bee Air" the name of the plane. The plane was...