[Leica] opening bell

[Robert Clark]

I still get a kick out of reading this...remembering the debate years ago of
when was it "officially" Friday!

Robert

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In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it is just after
sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is
officially open for business. 

Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is prounced
"Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as Kirimati and Kiritimati.
Kiritimati is pronounced "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was
an English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There is another
unrelated island with that name (an Australian territory in the Indian
ocean). Kirimati is part of the Line Islands archipelago.

Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it is now safe in
terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot of cast-off military hardware
littering the edges of the island, but it serves more as a replacement for
pandanus leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of rusting
scrap metal serve as landmarks.

There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow sand flats around
the island.  It's slow film country; the light is incredibly intense, being
very near the equator.


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