Upper Row: Left: Sissano Lagoon
from the air, site of the worst devastation from the 1998 tsunami.
Center: Rebuilding on the Sissano sandpit. Although there are
no permanent settlements, som have constructed huts for fishing
and camping trips. Right: This may be the 'bucket in the tree'
tree, it is hard to tell
Left: Showing the level of flooding
at a home near the mouth of the Aitape River. Center: these two
concrete pilings were overtopped by the surge which propagated
upriver as a bore. Right: The river flooded to the bottom of the
bridge, approx. 1 m.