Tikopia's crater lake before and after Cyclone Zoe (click on each image to enlarge).

	The shoreline of the lake before Zoe. This photo was taken in the area of the subsequent breach. Swamp taro, an important food source for the Tikopians, is seen growing abundantly. The huts in the foreground were washed into the lake by the storm. (Photo by Richard Majchrzak).
	This photo, taken after Zoe, shows the same area as the one above, but viewed in the opposite direction. The rubble in the foreground is what remains of the huts shown above. Intruding sea water has killed the swamp taro. Unless the intrusion of sea water can be stopped, one of the Tikopian's major food sources will not grow here again.
	The Lake looking toward the island's windward side. The breach caused by Zoe can be seen at upper left.
	A closer view of the breach, and what remains of the village on the sand spits on either side. As a result of cyclone Zoe, that part of the village that was in the present breach location was completely washed away, along with the people's ancestral graves. Tides and storms are now attacking both sides of the two spits whereon the surviving huts try to remain.

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