Another wonderful story from Willis
Willis Eschenbach posted yet another delightful story regarding several years he spent on a small island in the South Pacific in 1989.
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Tropical Crime and Punishment:
People sometimes ask how I learned so much about coral atolls and islands. It�s because for three years in the late �80s I lived in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, a coral island in the South Pacific. I was the Manager of the island, the company had a slipway and a shipyard and a machine shop and a trade store and a copra buying point and a banking agency and and a couple of cargo ships and a postal agency and a couple of guest cottages that we rented out and (as you can see) a whole lot of coconuts, and I ran the zoo. My wife and I were the only melanin-deficient folk on the island, at least at the time I�m talking about before our daughter was born, the rest were Melanesians and Micronesians, wonderful people. The company employed about thirty folks, and they and their wives and husbands and kids almost all lived on the island.
Willis sounds like a wonderful person to sit down over a couple beers and swap tales...
Posted by DaveH at February 11, 2013 8:50 PM