Samoa-Savai’i

Lava Fields/Sea Turtles/Beach/Water Fall/Samoan Barbecue

                It was another great day in Samoa!  It started out bright and early! We woke up around 4:00 am, and we were getting ready, and Tina came and got us at 4:30! That’s ridiculous! It was so early! This is twice in two weeks I have been picked up at 4:30! Crazy eh? Who would have ever thought I would get out of bed and be ready that early! Anyway, we had to catch the ferry at 6:00 so we had to get there! So we started our day of really early!

                As we were driving, Tina was getting really tired, she kept asking Anna, Emily, and I if we were sleepy, and we were like a little bit, but not too bad. Then she’d be like man I am! I can’t keep my eyes open! This was a little bit scary for me to know that my driver couldn’t keep her eyes open! Then the next time she goes, “Nancy, how are you doing?”  I said, “I’m doing great, not tired at all wide awake.” So she said, “Perfect, come drive! I need some sleep.” Guess what! She wasn’t kidding! I got to drive a car for the first time in about 4 months!!! I was so excited! Not only that, but I got to drive a car on the opposite side of the road! YEAH! It was so much fun! It was a little bit scary! The first thing I thought when I got into the car was, “Hmm…How do I drive again?” That isn’t the best thought to have come into your head when you are about to drive! No worries I did so good! I was a pro! The only thing I messed up on was that I turned the windshield wipers on when I tried to turn. Ha ha. The switch was on the opposite side of the road, but after that one time I was fine! AND…I even made it to the ferry and we were on time! It was so sweet!

              Anyway, so we get on the ferry, and I was like oh this will be like the ferry going to the zoo, and nice little short ride! Boy was I wrong! Ha ha! An hour and a half later we reach Savai’i! It was great ride though! We were able to watch the sunrise, and it was really relaxing! It was great fun!

                The first place she took us on Savai’i was to the “NEW” market! It’s new market they are trying to start up, and so it was a lot nicer than the one we went to the day before. I didn’t get anything, I’m just not a market person. It’s not my place. That’s okay though, I don’t think I ever really want to be a market person!

                After the market we started off the rest of our day! The first place she took us was out to the lava fields! These are similar to the ones in Hawaii. It was pretty sweet. You could see the black rock on the ground, then the greenery coming up through them, then at the opposite side of the black rock was the perfectly clear blue water! It was gorgeous! We were able to get out and walk around for a little bit, and that was pretty sweet.

                The next thing we did may have been my favorite thing we did over here. She was like I’m going to take you to see the sea turtles. We were like okay that sounds great! So we drove over then we got there, and we go in, and there are just pools of sea turtles. Now I know right now you are thinking, hmm, that isn’t that great why is it her favorite? Well now I’ll explain that! So the owner comes out and starts feeding them and just whacks a papaya (or something like that) and heaps of sea turtles come swimming over! He hands the piece of the fruit to me and I got to fee the sea turtles, right out of my hands! Now if that isn’t cool enough, pretty soon the owner goes, “Aren’t you going to jump in and swim with them? Pick one up and hold one?” I didn’t even know we could! So guess what I got to do! I got to hold a sea turtle, and I even got to swim with a sea turtle! It was so much fun! I was a little bit scared at first. If you remember yesterday, I was scared to swim with fish, and the sea turtles were a lot bigger, and a little more slimy, but I was the first to jump in and the first to touch them and the first to feed them out of all four of us! This was so much fun! How many people can say they have swam with sea turtles? I don’t know how many people can, but I know can say I have! It was so much fun!

                After the sea turtle adventure, it was time to head over to the beach for a little bit of relaxation! We went a little ways down the road, and there was one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen! It was incredible! The water was so blue, and shallow so far out!  You could just walk clear out in the middle! At least 150km out of just shallow perfectly clear can see the bottom of the ocean! We spent some time there and it was perfect! You could just float on the top of the water, get a little bit of sun and just let the tide take you! It was incredible! This was the picture perfect Samoan Beach!

                We spent a couple of hours there, and then it was time to be off on our next adventure. Tina told us she was taking us to a waterfall, and we were a little bit sad because we didn’t want to leave the beach, and we’ve seen some waterfalls, but we decided we’d just go with it! I am so glad we did! This was so cool! There were about five little waterfalls, and then one big one! Then the big one had a nice fresh water lake that you could just dive into and swim around! This felt so good! It was a little bit chillier than the ocean so it was so refreshing, then you could just swim around, jump off the rocks and the cliffs, and just relax! This was beautiful!

                After we had swam there for a little while, we were all starting to get hungry, and it was about dinner time, so we went and had our traditional Samoan barbecue! We had chicken and taro this time! It was really good! I know why Samoan people are as big as they are, because they feed you heaps and it all tastes so good, so you want to finish it, but you are full! It tasted so good!

                It was now about time for the last ferry, so we headed off to the ferry to come back in for the night! It was such a fun day! Who would have thought, I would ever get to swim with Sea Turtles, and drive a car on the opposite side of the road in one day! Another great day in Samoa!