Life Beyond Australia: Pictures, pictures, pictures!!!

You don't buy dessicated coconut in a packet here - you make it!! PS those brown coconuts we buy in stores are not eaten for fruit here! They're old coconuts - most people don't like them. They eat green, young ones where the flesh is about 1/4 thickness of an old one and it's somewhat floppy and soft - almost like a completely different fruit!

Why only let one person ride the bike when you can get four on!! These are some village kids we stumbled across.

Some of the many people in our car on this trip. There are 3 kids standing up in front of me too! I think there was 16 in a 9 seater.

That is not a worm - it's a snake!! We thought it was a worm until we saw it flick out its tongue!! I thought he was pretty cute!!

Some friends at Duma lake.

This is part of the view of the lake, but a small bay bit. The house thing is a restaurant and they keep fish in nets underneath it so they can have fresh fish on order!

The other side of the lake. The water was so warm - you had to get out of the water to cool off!

Leaving Tobelo behind as we boated out to the island beach.

It turned into a gorgeous day. The coast on the far right is Tobelo.

Perfect here. In about half an hour it stormed and rained so bad we couldn't see the tobelo coast!! And the lightening and thunder were about 2 seconds apart - that's when people decided to get out of the water!! It was raining so hard I was able to wash out all salt water from my clothes and hair just by standing in the rain!!

Hello snake. He got bitten. Whoops! Not bad though.

He didn't get bitten. Neither did his daughter. Ha! Was pretty cool to watch.

One of Wendy and Eamon's kids, Lily.

One of my school girls, Ester.

Two of my school boys, Tison and Febri, they're a bit cheeky. This photo is taken on the back of a ute coming back from the wedding ceremony. Don't worry - it was only 5km away. And we made anyone 5 years old or under sit down on the tray, lol!