Took the 1 hour ferryboat ride over to Savaii. We stayed in beach fales at Lauiula Resort. Nice people here. Very relaxed and quiet...except for the university students that should have been booked in down the beach at Manese. Very beautiful beach to ourselves with lots of coral and pretty little fish just off the shore!
Met some nice people from New Zealand! Clare and Kerry. (We later stay with them in Auckland.) Also a nice man from the Toronto area. Micheal.
We toured around with Micheal for a couple days in his rental car....very nice of him to invite us. He is on his way to Auckland to visit his son who is living there.
We visited lava fields....very hot and black. There are even villages with houses built on these hot, black platforms!
We happened upon a village with all the women having a weaving day. The picture is Micheal dancing with one of the women...the others were singing and laughing. It was really fun! Rob got dragged in and had a turn also but my camera battery died.
We also had a couple of cave visits and swam in a beautiful waterfall! We also hiked to an ancient tomb made of many many lava rocks that must have been carried up by hand a few thousand years ago.
Then saw these 'blowholes' on the shore. Water comes into underground channels and builds up until it 'blows!' The locals put coconuts on and they fly into the air at least 100 feet!There is Sarah with a lady weaver.
We also tried out a traditional Outrigger Canoe...we saw them out everyday fishing with this boat.
The owners of Lauiula gave us a cooking demonstration using a traditional Samoan "Umu." Complete with dressing the pig, squeezing coconut to get yummy coconut cream...Rob tried his hand at husking a coconut...not as easy as it looks! The result was a traditional feast and we were very full!
