We
have been using four SUVs to drive around the island, and every now and then,
we need to stop at a store for a member of the team who needs some drinking
water or some other item. We happened to be at a “grocery” store late in the
afternoon when I realized that we were near the Fisheries Commission that the
college’s president had told us about. The artist who painted the conference
table in the president’s office had also painted the pictures of the fish along
the wall outside the commission’s office. I got out of the SUV (almost all of
the vehicles here are from Asian countries—not American ones, for the record)
to take pictures for the group and got carried away. Instead of taking a couple
of pictures that showed all of the different fish, I wound up taking a picture
of each one of the fish because I found them so intriguing.
By
the way, the official name of the commission is the Commission for the
Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and
Central Pacific Ocean. That’s a mouthful worthy of the Victorian Era, with its
penchant for long names like the Society for the Suppression of Juvenile
Vagrancy.
The
conference table that I mentioned earlier was created by carpentry students at
the college. It’s spectacular. And it’s incredibly heavy. It was built with
“fallen” wood rather than harvested wood. The island is pretty eco-friendly
overall.
Those
same carpentry students built a series of tables for the cafeteria, too. Their
work is only available for sale on the island, though. You have to be at the
college for an annual action, apparently, in order to buy one. The tables are
certainly far too large to fit into an overhead bin, or I would have taken one
for myself.
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