Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Long Bay Birthday

Quick update, just some pretty pictures and brief descriptions.

Long Bay, Portland, on the North coast of the island. We were celebrating another volunteer's birthday. Here are some of us on the beach (we're the white ones)

Gavin and I decide to strike some poses.

It took hours of special effects to get the hair to stand up just right for the "wistfully gazing across the sea on a Friday afternoon" look I was going for.

A moonlit stroll on the beach. I set my camera to a long exposure time to use the moonlight to light up the shot, I think it turned out really nice.

Another one from that night, although the flash of light behind the clouds was a bolt of lightning.

Now a few work pictures.

A rainwater catchment and the open storage cistern. We're looking to design and construct a covering for it to keep garbage and animals out, as well as a safety measure to keep children away.The water is held in the cistern, then piped across the road and down to the communities below. Here a woman fills some water jugs. In the rural communities with no piped water, families may make several trips a day to the "water shop."

While investigating a water distribution system on the other side of the island, a group of schoolchildren were walking home. We couldn't drive much faster than a walking pace because of the roads, but it was a long walk and the pikni dem (children) definitely appreciated the ride.