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red prawns Fiji folklore

Folktale-style illustration of Lewa-ni-Cagi-Bula gazing at red prawns in a tide pool on a rocky Fijian shore

The Red Prawns of Vatulele

The island of Vatulele rises from the turquoise waters of Fiji like a crown of coral and stone, its shores carved by centuries of waves into shallow pools and rocky ledges. Here, beneath the equatorial sun, the tide brings gifts twice daily shells, seaweed, small fish darting through crystal shallows. But in certain pools, visitors will find creatures found nowhere

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Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog

In the Dreamtime, when animals still spoke the first language, the land woke to find no water anywhere. Rivers were empty, the
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