Situated about 185 miles north of the equator and around 7 miles in diameter, Fanning Island is a coral atoll with a lagoon that is almost entirely surrounded by the atoll. The colour changing of blues where the ocean meets the atoll and lagoon is amazing.
It is an island of spectacular natural beauty and inhabited but around 2000 residents who have no electricity nor indoor plumbing, so it doesn't get much closer to being the often dreamt of tropical desert island.
As we cannot navigate into the lagoon at English Harbour and there appears to be no port area, we are being tendered ashore as the ship stays off-shore. Tomorrow we arrive at Christmas Island.
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