Photos: Sinalei Resort After Tsunami; Clean Up Efforts In The Villages of Siumu, Maninoa, & Poutasi

Update: Sinalei Resort To Re-open 1st November 2009

Oct 2 2009

APIA, SAMOA – OCTOBER 02: Sinalei Resort Owner Joe Annandale (R) describes the tsunami wave to the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (L) at the Sinalei Resort near the village of Maninoa on October 2, 2009 in Apia, Samoa. Annandale lost his wife Tui when the 8.3 magnitude strong earthquake struck 200km from Samoa’s capital Apia on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami wave across areas of the island. Clean-up efforts have been hampered by a further quake measuring 6.3 which struck yesterday 85 kilometres south-east of Tonga. The official death toll across the Islands stands at 149. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

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Helpers try to recover a boat that was driven up into the trees near the Sinalei Resort

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APIA, SAMOA – OCTOBER 02: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (C) looks through the debris of the local church in the village of Poutasi on October 2, 2009 in Apia, Samoa. Poutasi’s church was damaged when the 8.3 magnitude strong earthquake struck 200km from Samoa’s capital Apia on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami wave across areas of the island.  (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

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Oct 2 2009

 

A Poutasi villager  sits in the pews of the local church destroyed by the tsunami

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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key speaks with tourists at the Sinalei Resort

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