Often called "The End of the Earth", Palmerston island is off the beaten path for most sailors traveling the South Pacific. A British seaman in the 1800's cl...

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last week we spent a few days getting to

know the remote island of aitutaki while

we waited for boat parts to arrive we

hitchhiked around the island explored

shipwrecks and saw a massive meeting of

eagle rays naturally as it was time to

move west we were welcomed with gale

force winds that made for an exciting

ride to Palmerston as we were inching

closer to the island and switched on the

engine we realized something wasn't

working quite right oh the time zone we

just came in to Palmerston and I noticed

that there was no water coming out of

the water exhausted cooling exhaust

panic quite a bit then I realized must

be the impeller and IQ wondering when an

impeller is this wheel what it comes in

through here fresh water from the ocean

comes through here it gets spun around

and then goes through there and it cools

everything inside the engine and then

goes out the back but when that wheel

doesn't spin it doesn't cool off so the

big dangers that we overheat our engine

that's the old impeller that's what a

new impeller looks like well

unfortunately it's an easy fix easy

solution I'm going to pull it out or

place it run the engine for a little bit

to cool off everything it did not cool

and I don't know hopefully there's not

more problems down the line as with

anything on a boat wasn't as simple as

changing the impeller we had to pull out

all the old pieces of rubber from the

old impeller now that we knocked out

another unexpected boat project we were

especially looking forward to our time

on Palmerston we were welcomed by a man

named Joe and his children who invited

us to their home for lunch

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after lunch Joe's kids took us on a tour

of their island despite being only a

mile wide the island is full of history

in 1963 a British seamen named William

marster settled on the island with his

three Polynesian wives as of our visit

Palmerston was inhabited by three

families fifty-seven descendents of the

three wives today there are over 350

Marsters worldwide

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during our walk we visited the

government building of Palmerston which

also serves a good cooking gas fill up

station we walked through a to mana tree

forest the expensive mahogany wood was

once a profitable export for the island

with cargo supply ships visiting the

remote island only twice a year the

marster family explained that money

doesn't serve much of a purpose communal

sharing and trading is what keeps

harmony on Palmerston we spent quite a

while at the school the kids were proud

to show us what they've been working on

and we were keen to get another

perspective from the South African

teacher working as he explained it all

the island kids ages board 7 essene

there one classroom and worked

individually from independent study

textbook written for American students

the material in the book has been

exemplified a large cultural gap when

words like escalator and elevator came

up in reading for Bible verses explained

everything in the science chapters there

she juggles to find a middle ground rent

from everyday ok ok word Andrew thick

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small very like each I don't agree

religious man but he paces like a Bible

great Sebastian I run

oh wow okay a lot of questions follow

every now and again I have a check back

at the end and coffee and finally they

got goat a little bit one all right what

are you doing

you've got so many balls dude help

getting it

our last stop was a visit to the solar

energy field that had recently been

installed Andrew our tour guide told us

that the old fuel generators that had

previously used were a loud smelly

disruption to their peaceful life on the

island they were so proud of their new

solar installation especially when it

meant they could power a new Wi-Fi

antenna imagine that we spent the rest

of the afternoon playing with the kids

getting to know our host family and

soaking up the remarkable situation we

had found ourselves in this day because

it is so remote we have often heard

Palmerston described as the end of the

earth and if that's so it's really not a

bad place to be

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