a house in an island

A typical house in a small island. The roof is made from wild nipah leaves. Wood for the wall is brought from the mainland because the villagers don't have tools to process their local log to plank. The house is built high to avoid high tide and wild animal, the space underneath is used to store boat and other stuff.

Teluk Suak - Pulau Kabung

   

  

 

Every morning there are boats leaving for Pulau Kabung transporting the islanders and carrying goods to sell in the island. Between Teluk Suak, the mainland, to Pulau Kabung is a gruesome sea particularly during a high tide season around September-March, the wave easily reaches 2 meter high. My travel buddy also has the same thought and he is an adventurer doing an expedition from June 2009-December 2010 to visit 100 islands in Indonesia. In our way back to the mainland, we even didn't manage to take our camera out to catch the beautiful sunset due to the high wave. Fortunately at the end we survived...from seasick :). 

Ps. Kabung also have very beautiful sea life, colorful fish and corals. Too bad, I didn't have underwater camera so I couldn't take pictures and share them here..