Our bure faced west and was covered from the east by a steep hill and a few big old trees, so the daybreak was pleasant to watch without heat or getting blasted by the sun. The waves crashing on shore were very relaxing.
We got out of bed around 7:30am, later called for transport to get to the main lodge for breakfast. We felt bad having to call someone every time to get back and forth, its too bad there’s not a path all the way we could walk.
After breakfast we got all geared up for the big 125m ascent to the lookout point. Sunscreen, hiking shoes, bug repellent, water, camera. It was quite the production.
It took us all of fifteen minutes to reach the lookout point. The well-defined path is pretty steep in stretches, almost 45*. At one point there was a spider and its web across the path, which normally we wouldn’t have mentioned in this blog, except that the spider was about the size of a iPhone SE. (We mentioned this to an Australian couple the next day, they were nonplussed, giant spiders being a thing there I guess). Used a fallen branch to clear the way.
The views from the lookout point were pretty cool. You can see both the east and west shores of the island, and the peaks in the south end.
The walk down was more challenging especially in the steep sections with loose gravel and twigs.
We followed the dirt road down the main bure, and had a very refreshing coconut, before walking back to our bure. That was it for our day - in the heat, the 90 minute “excursion” had exhausted us.
Read / caught up in my blog / watched the waves / did some laundry over the rest of the day.
Yasawa has their weekly kava night on Thursdays so got a ride in at 6pm to catch the sunset and then the kava ceremony. The sunset was beautiful, I think the first cloudless sunset we’ve seen this trip.
We weren’t that keen on another kava night (this was our 3rd) but it wasn’t too bad here. It’s more for demonstration here, and not never-ending rounds as it can be normally, and as it is at Oneta and Nakia.
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