The coprah harvest

Tahanea is beautiful and wild because there are no villages left, so no one lives here every day. There are no pearl farms, so there's much less plastic pollution. Only a few islets with coconut palms, which means that one or two locals have to break copra from time to time.
We meet Nico, a pomotu who lives in the little wooden hut in front of our anchorage. He has just arrived from Faaite in his small motorboat. He'll be staying here for two months to break copra. One morning, we accompany him to the palm forest behind his hut to watch him at work and make a short report on his job. Robin tries to imitate him, and soon realizes how physically difficult it is to split a coconut with an axe, then extract its flesh without impaling the thigh, and finally carry a 40-kilo bag of coconut on one shoulder without dropping it for 1 km through the bush, then empty it on the ground behind the hut onto the dead stones and coral to dry the flesh in the sun.
His day starts at 4 a.m., headlamp screwed on, he breaks for 1 hour, comes back for coffee and coconut bread, then goes back to work until midday. During his lunch break, he ingurgitates the same coffee and coconut bread, and in the evening, the same scenario. Then he exterminates two or three mice before returning to his tent in his wooden hut. When he has free time, he catches a parrot fish or a frigate to add to his menu.

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