Puluwat
puluvatElbert. Based on research in the Puluwat navigation system, Western educational technology is constructively designed in the atoll of Puluwat, a hundred miles west of Truk, where these arts are most highly developed in the Caroline.
PAULUVAT HELENA: Puluwat-apoll, Micronesia
Puluwat, Micronesia. Puluvat is part of Chuuk State in Micronesia, the FSM Federated States of Micronesia, are Kosrea, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap, called after their major isles. Puluwat's total resident populace is about 1000, many of the residents' families work and live in Chuuk, Guam, Saipan. The Puluwat was also involved in the wars, almost 3000 troops were deployed here, many of them dying of disease or famine.
There is a 40 metre high beacon on Alet which still exists today, you can see the balls from the fire in the beacon. Arrival at Puluwat Ă…toll after a week's drive from Pohnpei. A 38 kg yellowfin captured 25 leagues from Puluwat, the capture of my lifetime, we took part of the stock for ourselves and gave the remainder to the town.
The first thing you do when you go ashore is pay tribute to the chieftain, donate a present and pay a land charge. He was just named new chieftain here with Mario the chieftain, because the old chieftain passed away suddenly. Mario the chieftain comes from Saipan, where he was living with his people.
The other men in the men's home, which is the men's home where the men meet, are not a "tuba" that drinks here because the former chieftain has forbidden the tube after some trouble with drunk men. Once you have completed the paperwork you are part of the islanders and you can go where you want and make new acquaintances and see how the locals and work.
Coir is dryed to a cable. Traditional cottage. There is a big disparity in investment in learning between states in Micronesia, Chuuk has the impoverished educational institutions, here they are sitting on the floor, no seats or desks, not even proper shelter for the kids.
A little maiden is cutting a big makete out of a cock. Timothy -Moses, a pensioned schoolteacher, comes by to get us some coconuts and bananas. Later I fixed his watertank with fibres and epox. Puluwat's destiny. There is also a Lutheranurch in Puluwat. Heaven is just coming back from everyday worship.
There is better shelter in this group. Repair the windsail again. With the Lutheran congregation in the background. Men doing some necessary works, cut down here a chestnut that posed a risk for a home when it fell. Fixing or making a new one is a task for the whole town, each and every one of the families prepares some "tiles" for the rooftop, the next all of them help to make the rooftop, we were too slow to take a picture because they began at 7am after the chapel, and when we got there at 9am, it was over.
At the end of two week another vessel arrived, the denish vessel "Anaconda". colorful dusk in Puluwat. George's boy and son-in-law who cuts a made-to-measure Christmas ornament to make a home. 40 metre high beacon on the isle Alet. From Glenda to the beacon. On the inside of the beacon, here the rusty system to let the lights turn.
Sea views from the top of the beacon. There are still many cannons on the Isle, but they'll never fire again.