Meryl and Susan at Rose Bay Cottages, Malekula, Vanuatu

Susan was 15 when we met and had been taken out of school due to family hardship. She wanted to go back to school and we were able to arrange for her to start back at a new boarding school on Efate. We'll see how she goes ..... Just keeping this post alive as I hear all inactive ones may be deleted

The truck

Here is the truck fresh back from the workshop! It has acquired a rooftop tent, long range fuel and water tanks, drawers in the back, a frame behind the back seat and grills for the windows providing a fairly secure area to foil opportunistic thieves.

She doesn't have a name yet but I think its a girl - but from Amazonian stock.