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I didn't drag the camera everywhere with me, so I dont have a lot of pictures from this holiday.. it was too hot, and too lovely to to do anything other than relax really..and I certainly wasnt prepared to take it on any of the fun stuff such as jetskiing  ;)  So, some pics from the two islands I did take it to.

Two days of this gave me an understanding of why 'pacific blue' is a discreet and recognised colour...

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You sort of get an impression of how glad sailors must have been when suddenly you see this in the distance..this is mystery Island - not much of a mystery really - since you can walk around it in about an hour  ;)

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How tranquil is this... :wub:

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The main photographs on my camera are from Pentecost island - where the locals do 'land diving' at this time of year. I wanted to take pics here, and to use the manual settings. the challenges were poor lighting, it was raining for most of this activity, coupled with what I wanted to photograph was clearly going to require very fast shutter speeds.

This is the platform, which takes about 5 weeks to build, and those planning to jump sleep under it to ward off any evil spirits.

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Catching the jumpers is pretty tricky, they dance around on the platforms, singing and praying - not to mention working the crowd a bit  ;) for an unknown length of time, then suddenly jump.  Here are some I did catch.

This boy is seven - and therefore going from a low platform.

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This photo, sadly, is not in focus - I wasnt quite ready, as he wasn't supposed to be jumping yet, but I thought I would include it - as it is interesting. He didn't get the dancing quite right - and fell off  :(  He went down all legs and arms akimbo The village boys seated behind us found it highly amusing and were hooting with laughter - we did, once he got up and was all safe. Until then, we were holding our breath!!

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As the boys become men, they go higher up...

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And of course, the chief goes from the very top one - all up, about 30 metres up!!

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A quick 'by the way'..this is the child that someone from Angelina's group ran out to photograph - he is very cute  ;)

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