Canoes

The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

Canoes can be rented locally.

We sailed our canoes across the lake by using our tarps as sails.

The Indigenous people of North America fashioned sturdy, lightweight canoes from the bark of birch trees.

But unlike Venice, the village houses are built on sticks and dugout canoes are the main form of transportation.

Anstice Justin, head of the Andaman unit of the Anthropological Survey of India, recently led a mission to assess the damage on islands where one of the tribes live. He found sand and debris had filled the shallow waters where the Sentinelese people used to pole their canoes to catch fish.