Two Small Girls, a Kitten and a Coral island

ALTHOUGH living in one of the world’s most isolated places, Glynn and Nari Palmer, shown here in their garden at Fanning Island, look perfectly Maybe its because there is no regular school on the island and they are taught by their mother, who was Miss Glynn Stayte of Sydney before she married.

The old British cannon in the photo graph was found in the garden, the soil

for which was brought in sacks from Honolulu many years ago. (Fanning, be ing an atoll, has no natural soil capable of producing a European garden.) The kitten once had its ear chewed by a crab while lying paralysed by fish-poisoning.

It was rescued and revived but it still has one serrated ear to remind it of its adventure. —Photo by Brett Hilder.