There is not much you can call a hike on Tongatapu. It is very flat. We were very happy to find this trail. It goes down about 100 feet from the Land Bridge to the ocean below, and the trail is rather hidden. We found it, and boy are we glad we did.
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| We found the trail! |
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| The beach as we finished the hike down |
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| Waves crashing onto shore |
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A couple love birds
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| The land bridge is up above |
The waves can get pretty large with the incoming tide. There seemed to be about 10 average size waves, then a much bigger one. More than once we got splashed unexpectedly. But it felt good on a warm day.
We spent quite a bit of time walking the rocky shore, looking for hermit crabs which we were told were abundant, but found none. It was still a great day. We will return.
No one else was on the beach. We had it all to ourselves.
We found an interesting sea creature. It looked something like a sea cucumber lying on the sea floor. We tickled its back and it opened up and swam around very gracefully.
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| Karen Fetzer and Sister Thomson |
It was a fun to spend the day with Karen Fetzer, from the Amanaki Fo'ou group who we picked up at the airport a day early. We loved spending the day with her! Karen lives in Hawaii with her husband. She has been a long-time friend of Andrea Ferguson who along with Rob Ferguson, podiatrist, and Kendall (another podiatrist) and Tiffany Shumway put this program together. Karen is a trained physician assistant. She helped in many ways including nutrition, cooking, zumba, etc.
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| Tide is coming in! |
We walked out along the rocks to the reef edge. We arrived at low tide and when the tide started coming in it came in fast. Looking at this picture, we were out beyond where the wave is crashing a few minutes before.
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| Starting up |
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| Where is the trail back to the top? |
In His hand are the deep places of
the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Psalms 95:4
Such beauty!
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