Minja-hi is a Spontoon Island tourist guide and street-performer (She does comedy routines that spin off from tourism and acting the cliche 'native'). What she does is similar to a wandering performer at a modern-day Renaissance Festival: Interact & entertain the tourists. A bare-midriff sunsuit is pretty risque for the 1930s: As a costume, it would signal that this performance would be part of a burlesque stage show for an adult audience. There are some stage shows at the tourist hotels & casinos, and at a couple of the larger bars on Casino Island. In another archived file, Minja-hi is shown flagging down a 'bus' truck.
The character Minja-hi is a co-creation with Laurie Gerholz. This, of course, is a G-rated model sheet of Minja-hi's colors and markings.

Herman Orca gets the Spontoon Island vacation that he needed! Kjartan Arnorsson's character from the furry comics gets some stress-free time.
Beachwear styles are approximately from the 1930s. Muzzle decorations are fur dyes. The Spontoonie song is about a fameous local two-engined seaplane. The accordion has been retroactively declared a Spontoonie folkmusic instrument. The vacation location is on the South Island of the Spontoon Atoll located in the archive at: http://spontoon.rootoon.com

A cover for the Spontoon Island zine. Two caricatures of styles for late 1930s floatplanes. If you fly a seaplane, there are plenty of possible places for a funny animal pilot to stop and take a break in the islands.

"The Truck" is the bus service on the Main Island of Spontoon Atoll. A couple of Spontoonie shoppers coming back from market. They won't miss the Truck this time.

Tilli-li, the Radio LONO reporter, asks (in Chinook Jargon) if you speak Spontoon Island native language.

The various first-year dormroom teams have swum to shore in their flightsuits. They are graded on how they apply their survival skills for the next 4 days.
Amelia's group is quickest to adapt to the environment. Characters from Amelia's diary entries (copyright) by Simon Leo Barber.

At some point in training routine, the instructors will install a broken part, and have the trainees look for it.
Songmark Aeronautical Boarding School for Young Ladies, circa 1934. Characters from the copyrighted stories by Simon Leo Barber.
http://spontoon.rootoon.com

Spontoon Island: stylish tourist beachwear circa 1934. A "golddigger" is early 1930s slang for an attractive young woman actively hunting for a rich man. There is some subtext to how this term was used that may have something to do with the Great Depression....

Spontoon Island: casual beachwear circa 1933.

Spontoon Island travel poster. The islands are in the Nimitz Sea section of the North Pacific Ocean.

The Spontoon Island Althing contracts with the Rain Island Naval Syndicate for defense of the archepelago. This would be typical of a patrol seaplane (done in bigfoot caricature scale!)

This is the bus service on Spontoon Island. Minja-hi is a guide and entertainer at the tourist hotels. (She is a shared character of Laurie Gerholz & Ken Fletcher)

Bellanca AirCruiser floatplane based on Spontoon Island. Tourists on an extended picnic.

Spontoon Island, 1937. A radio station broadcasts late at night to aid seaplane navigation. Tilli-li is the dj, the Radio engineer is asleep.

Scenic view on a windy day. Spontoon Island, circa 1937. A pair of couples go for a drive and park on a ridgetop road to watch seaplanes land on the lagoon.

"Hoomans, Furries, Cartooners!"
"Our next act, from the fabulous and exotic Spontoon Island Archipelago! The Flying Airplane Sisters!"
(Please hold your applause until the airplane has successfully landed!)

A retro 30s coyote babe enjoying her beers a bit to much. I think this was at a ROWRBRAZZLE anniversary party.