Fishes - Australian Museum Fish Site

The Fish Department - Fieldwork

Solomon Islands, 1998

At many of our anchorages, villagers paddled out in their canoes to look at the boat and observe our work. We were often anchored well away from shore, but this did not seem to trouble the children, who were very confident in their small dugout canoes.

Canoes

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