I’ve always been interested in the expatriate European that leaves and keeps going. I’ve lived in seven different countries working in the private sector and it always amazes me to hear of explorers that meet a deadly native population and somehow survive to tell the tale. With that in mind there aren’t many that have survived this group.
The first picture is creepy. It looks to be taken from skiff-level or akin to that. Looks like they snapped the picture on their way to shore. Imagine being on the freighter that ran a reef. Be hard to sleep at night wondering if they were walking around on board.
Those guys are crazy. Basically begging to provoke these people.
Imagine sitting there, minding your own business, stroking your loin cloth and a bunch of people looking like the Mumbai Rotary Club come on your beach yelling, holding coconuts over their heads. I’d probably grab my arrows, too.
Have you ever watched the show “Lost”? What if deep in their island, they were normal, intelligent, and sophisticated people and just put on that persona for the outside world?