DK Orchard

Yesterday Dr. Larsen and I decided to go snorkeling on the south side.  We 1st went to the clinic to take care of a missionary with a toothache.  He is stationed on the island of Savaii so he had to catch the 6 AM Ferry to get here by 9.  After doing a root canal we drove by a group of LDS youth who were at the side of the road advertising their car wash to raise funds for charity.  It was part of their youth conference.  So we stopped to have the car washed.  It was quite dirty.

We then headed to the fish market to get some fresh snapper.  The owner of the market called and left a message that the snapper were in.  She knows that is our favorite.  Then we headed south on the east cross island road to Lotofaga (pronounced Loto fanga) and found a secluded beach.

 

There was a lot of coral there with a large number of fish, large schools of colorful tropical fish, not very large but way fun to watch.

 

We found a beautiful waterfall called the Sopoaga (pronounce Sopo aunga) waterfall.  While there we found a young man in a cultural garden mowing the lawn.  They had coconuts you could husk, or at least try to husk.  He saw our struggles and came over to show us how easy it is.  These three pictures show him shredding the broken coconut, then squeezing the cream out.  It really is quite amazing.  They use coconut cream to cook with all the time.

We went down the road a little and found a place called the To Soa sea trench.  It's a huge hole in the ground filled with sea water from a lava tube.

 The area around the sea trench was beautiful volcanic rock formations with the surf pounding in.  It was gorgeous.

 We stopped at a seaside cafe.  I had a Coke Zero and Clyde had a coconut.  This crowd of kids were the same ones at the youth conference doing the car wash.  We weren't disappointed in the day's adventure.