Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Making A Landing

I found this photo on the Internet -- I don't think it is one that I have myself. I am the boy at the back of the boat on the left, next to my sister and mother. It would have been taken around 1966, in the central Pacific. In those days, atolls didn't have passages. A launch would pull this boat, then set us loose to surf the reef and make a landing. One's timing had to be very good. I was still on the mission ship one day when my mother and sister crashed on the reef, and many of our possessions were lost. OBSERVATION: The photo looks over-saturated. However, the central Pacific is, too, a deep blue beyond imagining.

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