Fishing Boats

We saw many of these boats at night. It was difficult because they don't use standard navigation lights, but rather these red, white, blue flashing lights that are also used on fishing nets.

Manokwari

October 28th 2011
We spent only a few days in Manokwari, but it was quite an eye-opening experience for us and the locals alike. Our crew, arriving in a big shiny white boat, and anchoring in the bay, was pretty much the equivalent of little green aliens arriving in a spaceship. I'm pretty sure that nearly everyone in this "city" had pretty much never seen a white person before, or maybe just once or twice be ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » West Papua » Manokwari

The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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