Casted-off from their land to the sea and now they get land sick

Off the coast of Malaysia, in the crystal coral seas, there are group of people who have being casted –off lands and have to leave on the sea, they are banned from Malaysia soil as refugees.

The Bajau  people have severed ties with the mainland and now living a nomadic lifestyle on the open ocean. They build  off-shore community and relies soley on the ocean for their survival. The children of the Bajau children first education is a net for catching fish, octopus and Lobsters.

The children have spent most of their natural lives on the ocean that their eyes can now see clearly under-water, and those of them that go on land experience “land sickness” the moment they leave the water.

They sometimes come to land to trade seafood for the necessities you cannot find in the ocean. The Bajau  are stateless communities refugees who left Philippines and now their whole lives is at the sea, their visit to land is to trade fish for rice, water and other staples.

Their interaction with the sea have made them to know time by moment of the tides .