Tuvalu fishermen at sunset.

It was early evening on Tuvalu, the remote and distant atoll that was once known as the Ellice Islands.  One of the smallest nations in the World, with just 10,000 inhabitants on nine reef islands and atolls,  Tuvalu is almost unknown.  There is just one flight a week from Fiji.

I walked behind the government offices where I was working, to see the sunset.  A group of local men were fishing on a small jetty.  Fishing is a hobby, a social gathering and an industry in the Pacific.  The men were huddled together, as the massive fireball descended into the lagoon.