the next morning (thursday, july 2), we got up early to catch our ride down to the harbor to get on our boat.
this man walked past our hotel while we were waiting to be picked up. b liked his traditional style of clothing.
we made it to the harbor and followed a guide to our boat.
we liked the colorful boats and imagining which one would be ours.
the bright green and yellow one was ours!
the boat crew pulled the boat up to the deck so we could get on.
we were very excited to get on our boat and see how nice it was!
we met fenar, our guide. he spoke english and indonesian. 
w loved (loved) being on the boat. he told me shortly after we started our three-day boat adventure that the boat life was for him. 
s got a sneak-peak into the kitchen area.
w is exploring the upper deck of the boat.
s loved (loved) being on the boat too!
she also enjoyed pretending to drive the boat.
they gave us a breakfast of fresh bananas and papaya, which we enjoyed. 
it was exciting when we headed out of the habor around 8:30am.
cathy is admiring s's enthusiasm.
the big s is making some great faces here.
our first taste of the sea life!
some little fish we could see from the side of the boat.
we went snorkeling to a couple spots earlier in the day, then by the later afternoon we docked at a traditional pulau rinca village. our guide, fenar, went with us on into the town.
the dock deck was very precarious. you had to be careful where you stepped.
the scenery--out into the amazingly blue water and distant mountains (which often looked a lot like utah mountains) was wonderful. 
i really like this shot.
a man walking out to his boat.
the tide was out when we arrived.
the village was small and had a paved walkway throughout it. 
the village's main industry is fish. we saw lots and lots of drying fish.
the fish were small.
so many fish.
we came upon a man writing a number in the sand. 
fenar led us to the village's school. 
as you know by now, we find the areas where people live in indonesia infinitely fascinating. a lot of the homes here were on stilts.
look how intense that sun is. it hurts your eyes to see it in the picture.
i really like this picture.
a group of girls holding flowers walked past us. as they approached, i told them that i liked their flowers. and then, to my chagrin, they gave me all of their flowers. i thanked them and then gave sierra some.
walking into the school grounds.
it was not in great shape, but there was a big space for the kids to run around in. w and s sure didn't have that in solo.
w chasing a chicken with b's contrapposto shadow. 
the shade was nice after dealing with the hot sun.
an interesting bell used at the school. it's an old diving tank with the two parts of a wrench as the knocker. indonesians are so creative at re-using things.
b's lovely visage over the top of the school classroom. it is pretty bare bones.
it's only elementary age kids who go to this school. older kids, if they choose to continue their education, go to a school on flores. they live on flores for the week, and then come home quickly on the weekends to visit their family. boarding schools have always seemed both intriguing and scary to me.
they created a border of glass beer bottles in the school yard. it seemed like a great way to use old bottles. (i love this picture too--b is really great at capturing interesting perspectives.)
this is the teacher quarters. it's hard to imagine living in these conditions. even by indonesian stardards this is very humble. but while we were there, we didn't see any students or teachers on the school grounds.
after touring the school area, we continued walking through the village. the kids were very keen on having their picture taken.
b had wanted to just get the two girls in the canoe, but then when he asked if he could take their picture this group of boys ran in.
interesting how the two girls seem oblivious to the photos being taken.
the kids were all very cute. 
i like the long shadows at this time of day.
a man selling pearls and komodo dragon carvings.
a cool porch.
the village had quite a few goats. here's one finding refuge in the shade.
longer, bigger fish.
this one is great. i love how the fish seem to go on forever.
we found some men working on an old boat. at first we thought they were building a new boat, but then b discovered that they were repairing it instead. they said that any boat could be fixed and that they could fix it in 10 days. 
it seemed like they still had a few days to go on this repair job.
lots of anak anak sangat imut!
a surprisingly big house--perhaps the biggest in the village.
i like the varying degrees of turquoise in the porches x's.
some netting used to protect some young plants.
another kambing.
a little fire.
a brightly colored house. i do miss all of the bright colors of indonesia.
another kambing!
...and another.
a nice stack of drying coconuts. it reminds me of sheath a dried chilies. 
i like these two pictures. i like how she's not interested in us at all.
a rooster on the dried fish.
the rooster eating the dried fish.
some boys playing a board game of sorts. i asked them if it they liked playing it, and they said that yes they did like it.
a nice shot of the boardwalk deck out to our boat. 
you can't see just how rickety it was, but it was rickety. sometimes you'd step on a board at one end, and then it would pop up at the other end. and there some gaping holes in it too. it was adventure walking down it.
again, our shadows look cool. 
some kids playing on a grounded boat.
i really like these boat shots. you can see some more kids playing (or maybe catching things) in the water.
a beautiful shot.
such an intense equitorial sun.
back on the boat again.
as dusk was setting in, we headed over to our overnight spot.
in the evenings, people in small boats would cruise around trying to sell food or other wares to boats. here, a man is trying to sell fish to our boat. 
if you blow up this picture, you can see a large red snapper behind the man's knees. i saw him pull this out, and it was a big snapper.
we saw a pod of dolphins! a great siting. s had always wanted to see dolphins--so she, especially, was very excited.
w watched the captain fish off the back of the boat.
me admiring the beautiful views.
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