The Trobian islands

The Trobian islands were a bit of a disapointment for us... We were expecting smiling, topless Huba-Lubas and free loving in the "islands of love", and found none of that...

The white man influence seemed to destroy all of that, all the traditional customs and costumes are long gone, and are put up for show once a year in the "Yam festival". The locals offered to put up a show for us, for a nice fee, but we weren't into that...

We were swamped by locals approaching the boat and trying to sell us their carvings and fruit. We ended up with a few not-too-impressive carvings and a full on banana tree on the deck... all of us ate more fruit than ever before... One of the local fishermen sold us a delicious fish and John made us a fantastic fish'n'chips dinner!

Anyway, we had a relaxed few days and prepared ourselves for a two-night ocean crossing back to the mainland...