Paul, of the suitcase fame came and collected us from our hotel along with several other people from other hotels and took us in this open air bus/cart to board the boat to One Foot Island on the Vaka cruise. . We stopped off at an island on the way for a bit of a lesson about the local coconuts and vegetation.
Then we stopped for the obligatory snorkeling. However the water was so shallow you could stand in most places, but the fish were pretty interesting. We saw quite a number of Travali which were quite long fish.
We all had fresh coconut milk in the coconuts, which was delicious and cooling as it was pretty warm.
Then it was time for lunch. What a feast! All local dishes. Papaya, semolina squares, sea grapes, purple sweet potato and delicious fish. My favourite though is BBQ banana. They are so delicious. like sweet caramel.
This was my plateful of food. I only took a little of everything to try, but it ended up being a big mound of food.
One Foot Island was so beautiful! We walked around the Island and swam. I was only out in the sun for about an hour and managed to give my back a good burn.
This was our boat.
So stunningly beautiful. We made the trip home, drinking wine, being taught the Hakka and singing to ukelele music put on by the crew and their families. It was a wonderful days outing. The crew on the boat were so kind and could not do enough for us all. Paul was quite a character and kept us all happy and laughing. The sun, the water, wine, music and good company made for a wonderful day.
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