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Celebrate - Enjoying a bit of Paradise



Well apart from those boats having technical problems island life has dropped a few gears and everyone is enjoying the peace and beauty of the place.

This has not always been the case; a trip to the museum on Home Island outlines a very interesting history. The owners of the island for some 200 years originally from Scotland appear to have run the place like a slave colony importing Malaysians as workers on the coconut palm plantations . The family isolated the residents of Home Island from its neighbors. A walk around the island and you see some evidence of this history with warehouses and copra drying sheds. Oceania House where the ruling family lived still sits out on a headland commanding views of the coast and what remains of the plantations on Home and South Island. Despite selling the islands in the 1950/60s the family held onto the house and it was only recently sold. It is now in private ownership and under renovation. On a snoop around the outside of this colonial mansion you can see the white glazed bricks imported from Scotland. Another interesting fact learnt from the museum was that the British claimed the islands as a colony by mistake thinking they were the Cocos Islands which are much further North near India!

Peter took a dive trip a couple of days ago, diving some beautiful coral off Horsburgh Island and a wreck off Direction Island, we saw canons, even a iron. There is also remains of the underground cables once connecting the UK to Australia.

Most evenings sundowners are enjoyed on the beach of Direction Island where we compare notes on our excursions and problem solving. Often a fire is lit extending the conversation and refreshment well into the night. Last evening the sport of hermit crab racing was introduced racing your adopted crab out of a circle in the sand. We can assure you that no local crabs were harmed in this bit of fun.

Charlie, Cathy and Peter


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