1/11/2024 0 Comments North sentinel island 2017![]() ![]() This fate awaits the Sentinel Island people and my guess is they see what has happened to the locals on the other Islands and want nothing to do with it. ![]() We went down to the village by the port and had a chai and just watched endless logging trucks go by. In the police station there was a board which number the people on the island. The forest on the Island went down to the Ocean with buttress roots showing just metres from the shore. We were put in a bus on a dirt road which went by a port filled with giant rainforest trees cut from the forest. We were told to go to the police station to register to be on the Island. They were the Local Indigenous people of the Island. They had been kept in a section under where we had been. The wharf was nearly cleared when a lot of shouting started, we looked around and saw a large group of small, 5 feet or less men women and children getting off the boat. They hadn't been informed the Island was now open to tourist. Arrived early morning to police wanting to know what we were doing on the Island. We had to stay down stairs as the decks were too narrow to sleep on. Myself and a German, meet on the boat, arrived on the Island after a small inter island boat trip. I couldn't get to the Sentinel Island but got lucky as they opened up another Island to visitors while I was there. ![]() I found the photos to make me go to the Andaman Islands. I spent weeks going through NASA Photos taken from the space shuttle hoping to get a glimpse through the clouds of some land and a surf break. I saw that set up for the Sentinel Island back in 1997 before Google Earth. Truth be told it's good to know that even with the omniscience of Google Earth there are some waves that we can't reach.Īnd god help any silly bastard that tries. So despite the quality of the reef pass left, surfing on North Sentinel Island is off limits for a while yet. Tourists who've paddled out at Lennox Head may appreciate the image. Sentinelese stand guard on their home beach. They were thanked with a volley of arrows.Ī list of similarly heavy-handed encounters can be found here. While in 2004, following the Indian Ocean earthquake, the Indian Governernment flew a helicopter overhead to check the islanders welfare. Great place for a surf camp! A workable left on one side of the channel, plus a smaller right just a short paddle away.īut let's consider the logistics. Those aforementioned attacks include the deaths of two fishermen whose boat accidentally drifted too close to the island when they were fishing for mud crabs. Historical searches show enough consistency for it to be considered a good, reliable wave. At the very southern tip is a reef pass with what appears to be a genuinely good lefthander on one side and a right that may need a bit of swell to tick over just a short paddle away. Google Earth shows the southern coast of North Sentinel Island is open to the Indian Ocean and gets much the same swell as Banda Aceh and the western Indonesian provinces. I logged on and unfurled the treasure map. People start reading about them, they become curious, maybe they want to save their souls, or maybe just plunder their waves.īeing a non-believer I fall into the latter group. Whenever an attack like this happens, and there's been a few, it brings more attention to the bolshie Sentinelese. The Sentinelese are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world, they've repeatedly resisted outsiders and attack anyone who comes near their island, missionary man or not. The ABC is reporting that Chau had a strong desire to to meet the Sentinelese and preach the word of God. John Allen Chau was trying to "reach out" to the locals of North Sentinel Island, but they were having none of it and shot Chau with arrows. The Brotherhood of Man struck a hitch last week when an unarmed American was killed on an idyllic Indian Ocean island. A surf story, of sorts, for a slow news day. ![]()
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