Motu- Wave

COUNTRY:
Motu

DESIGN:
My family and I were in Rarotonga ( Cook Islands ) some years ago and were astonished to see a sailboat, Illusion, from Bellingham tied up in the harbor. We hailed the owners who indeed came from Bellingham (our hometown). Incredible ! So they graciously agreed to take a couple of pigeons for me which I hurriedly painted up. We had a nice dinner with them before they left Raro on their boat. This pigeon  was mailed from Vanuatu —a very isolated place & I was thrilled to get it back.  The third picture was taken by them in Vanuata at the postal shop just before mailing it.  A year later I met Bob back in Bellingham and we went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival together.

MAILED:
By Bob and Cary Deringer in Port Vila, Vanuatu in 2004. After years of cruising the Pacific, they sold their boat in Australia and moved to Hawaii.  They also mailed a pigeon from Niue for me —>  look for Motu – Lucky Dog.