If you pull in to some of the gas stations around the island, you might see these huge ice chests outside of the little gas station store. Also notice that you can buy Bob (pronounced bub) here too. (The huge green thing on the bottom shelf.)
Gary wanted to show what you might find inside. The fresh catch of the day is waiting for you to take home and cook up for dinner or lunch.
The first Bob Festival was held last year on April 24, 2010. Don't mind the date on my photos. I guess the date/time stamp is set for the wrong time zone. Gary and I had gone in on a Saturday to make some phone calls on Skype. As we rode home in a van taxi, the Bob parade came by. Our taxi driver pulled over on the road and we were able to watch the short parade go by. The fruit of the Pandanus tree is called Bob. It was not only a festival of the fruit but of the products that come from the pandanus tree. The leaves are also used for weaving mats (jaki), thatching huts, and before the Christian missionaries came, the leaves were woven into skirts and clothing.
I took this picture on one of my food deliveries to the CMI Arrak campus for the ABC Toolbox program.
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