tree - Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

29 juin 2015

Pneumatophores.

I've been fascinated by the mangrove since I arrived in Mayotte. The mangrove goes pretty much all round the island. From most points on the coast, you can either see it or smell it, or both. Mangrove trees are salt tolerant, and they have an very simple...

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Tags: mayotte, water, mangrove, root, tree, threat, breathe, filter, filtration, guyana, guyane, human, influence, new caledonia, nouvelle calédonie, pneumatophore, scientists, threatened, crab

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15 septembre 2014

Cats and Miss.

School's been back for three weeks now. I've met all my classes, and there's everything from sweetness and light to ear-splitting caterwauling in there. These are some photos of my school. Right at the top is the tropical almond (Terminalia Catappa, if...

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Tags: mayotte, cat, food, dress, salouva, kawéni, pupils, school, teacher, tree, students, miss, building, badamier, litter, mew, playground

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1 septembre 2014

Alefa Madagascar! Part 2 of 2.

The starting point of anything Malagasy is Antananarivo, the capital city, generally shortened to Tana. It's bang in the centre of Madagascar, and it's where all the planes go to and come from. So, logically, this was the starting point of my adventure....

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Tags: house, food, rice, motorbike, people, town, road, village, tree, down, mountain, trip, travel, republic, madagascar, alefa, voyage, capital, city, paddy

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21 avril 2014

Strange food they have here.

These are banana flowers. They grow on the ends of big banana bunches like below. You have a hundred or so bananas spiralling downwards, and a big purple flower on the end. Lots of people eat yellow bananas. Here, green bananas are a vegetable like any...

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Tags: island, mayotte, banana, food, green, yellow, tree, flowers, plants, bunch, cooking, reunion, stew

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31 mars 2014

Hellen

The weather was pretty grotty this weekend, so I haven't been out much. In fact, Mayotte was placed under "strong rain warning" on Thursday evening, because a depression was forming in the Mozambique channel, along the coast of Mozambique. On Saturday...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, water, rain, tree, kwassa, driving, weather, wind, stones, tropical, ferry, cyclone, avalanche, storm, tempest, election, hellen, mozambique, tanzania, vote

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