https://forgeover.com/tags/sand/ Recent content in Sand on Forgeover Hugo en-us Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:01:01 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/travel/mystery-island/ Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:48:08 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/travel/mystery-island/ <p>Mystery Island is a little sand spit in the lagoon that we anchored in at Anatom. The island is haunted—or so the locals believe—and this makes it uninhabitable for any ni-Vanuatu. The interesting thing is that they don&rsquo;t mind going over there for the day to sell cheap &ldquo;made in China&rdquo; trinkets to cruise ship tourists. They get a lot of opportunities to do this too as a cruise ship pulls in every 3-5 days (in season) to barf out a few thousand pink gaudily dressed tchotchke-hungry consumers. As a result the island has been &ldquo;developed&rdquo; into a kind of Survivoresqe theme park, part tasteful thatch shelter, part gauche photo-op, but all very interesting if you happen to go over there when the show isn&rsquo;t on.</p>