All good things must come to an end...

And this month back on Pitcairn has been one of them.

Today I set sail on the Claymore II on a 36 hour journey to Mangareva.

So to finish up the Pitcairn portion of this blog, here are a few of the photos taken on my amblings around the place, while walking, aboard the longboats, aboard cruise ships, driving around on my trusty stead.

Enjoy…

Cruise Ship Amadea Vs the Yacht Southern Cross

Some Pitcairn coastline. This area is called 'Down Issacs'

More coastline, the cave looking thing on the left is called 'Gudgeon'

Can you spot the goats? Pitcairns only local source of red meat.

Following the huge earthquake in Chile, Pitcairn was one of the first places on Tsunami alert. Luckily for us, Pitcairn is very highly elevated and is in the middle of very deep ocean. Therefore Tsunamis don't get much of a chance to build up enough to do much damage. However, we did have some really interesting swell down at the landing.

If you look closely, you can see how low the water has dragged out emptying the harbour.

Within seconds, the water gushed back into the harbour

This activity was more like extreme tides rather than large waves. Very interesting to see as most of have never seen down the landing completely drained of water before.

The french cruise ship 'Princess Danae' stopped in for a visit.

Onboard the Danae watching the longboat pass by.

Paparazzi! They took more photos of us than we did of them.

I didn't spend all of my time fishing, swimming and eating. Decided to try my hand at making a strap basket. These baskets are made from shipping straps.



The finished product

Also tried my hand at some wood burning

More Scenery, from the Highest Point on the island, looking down

Overhead view of St Pauls Pool

The School

A part of the main road

The beautiful

And the not so beautiful...

A view of the rest of the world from Pitcairn.

Good-bye from Distant Horizons blogging centre on Pitcairn Island...

To Do Item 2 - Fishing

For me, this is very closely related to “to do item 1’ as I fish for dinner rather than for sport. There are heaps and heaps of different types of fish you can catch around Pitcairn whether it be out in the boats or just throwing a hand line in off of the rocks.


One of my favourite Pitcairn fish is called Nanwe (don’t know the English name sorry!) Luckily for me its quite easy to catch and can be caught off the jetty using a handline.

This colourful guy is called a Po’o.


He was unfortunate enough to get hooked on my line (I was very very pleased with myself!)and is delicious fried, then cooked in coconuts milk (as is the Nanwe). He was caught on the other side of the island in a place called 'Sandy Harbour'. Not a whole lot of sand in this harbour...

To Do Item 1 – Eating

Easily one of my favourite pastimes, there’s no escaping the fact, I love food!

Pitcairn weckle (food) is quite Polynesian in the types of food and the way that it’s cooked. Most food here is fried is vast quantities of oil, then drenched in coconuts milk – totally delicious and very bad for the waistline.

Probably one of Pitcairns most important foods is the Breadfruit which grows in abundance here. Its importance is due to the fact that this fruit is the reason that people live on this little island at all. (Refer to the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty)


Breadfruit is quite starchy inside and once it starts to get ripe, it goes all soft and smells quite sweet. Pitcairners tend to use them before they start to soften. The most popular way to cook breadfruit is to just boil it. However, you can fry into crunchy chips, cut up for stew or cook any way that you would a potato. Normally served with meat, it makes for a filling and delicious side.



This fellow was caught by my uncle for a ship.


To his disappointment (and my gain!) the ship decided that they didn’t want lobster, so my uncle donated his catchings for the eating. I didn’t get around to cooking this chappy straight away, so delivered him into the freezer until cooking time. Yum…