29 May 2014

Pitcairn Island Tourist Photos

Lisa, Sven, and I

Bounty anchor... when the mutineers got here they BURNED their ship so that they wouldn't be discovered by any passing British ships because they knew they would be hung if found (which also meant that they could never leave) but then all ended up killing each other anyway (except for ONE of them) leaving only the Tahitian wives and their bi-racial kids alive!!

At the lookout. :)

Emily and Emily... One of us is an 8th generation Canadian, the other an 8th generation Pitcairn Islander, a direct descent of Fletcher Christian the leader of the infamous mutineers from 'Mutiny on the Bounty' the ship captained by Blyth himself. Emily has never been off Pitcairn Island, which is about 2 miles long, but will soon leave her elementary school - 8 kids in it at the moment 4 of them her siblings - and head to high school in New Zealand. She will be gone for 4 years without even summers back home.