Whew! Catching up on the blog, now that we're in California. The last day we spent hiking the Lavena Coastal trail, a total of 10.8 kilometers round-trip. Along the ocean, into the jungle, across fields of coconut, along a river, culminating at a fabulous set of waterfalls. On the way, we met up with a group of adolescent boys returning from a successful wild pig hunt. Once at the end of the trail, you had to swim through a channel cut in the rock, into a large pool, where 2 waterfalls were pouring. Rock climbing next to a waterfall, we jumped in...plunged into what felt like the inside of a washing machine, then you got spat out and spun into the middle of the pool. It was laugh out loud fun...Let's do it again! That evening, John had a farewell dinner for us on the Infinity Deck, and of course, the men sang and drank kava. The next day we packed up, wrote our farewell poem, watched the kids play volleyball, then headed to the airstrip. It was an outstanding flight over the islands back to Nadi...turquoise blue water, with green atolls, bouncing through friendly clouds... Sat. night in California, we went out with the boys and their girlfriends, watched the SuperBowl on Sun., and are now catching up with the logistics of the little apartment we've rented in Santa Barbara. Kent will continue to add underwater photos as he processes them... See you in Alaska, March 1. Tally-ho.
