FIJI Day 12

It was another nice day. The plan for this day was to follow our track across the island toward Picnic Beach but veer off it to the left somewhere up top and find a track to take us to Sacred Bay which may well be much less steep than that down to Picnic Beach. We packed lunch and started out along the shore where a group of villagers, a few women and some children, were headed in the same direction. She asked where were we going and I told here up into the hills to picnic and explore and I asked her the same thing. She said they were going to collect pippies and if we wanted when we came back we were welcome to come over and she'd show us if they were still there.

Just as we were turning into the bush Tracey's voice boomed, "Where are you two off to?" I don't know if they'd seen us and followed, but there they were. They'd asked us where the track was before and we'd told them but they were keen for us to show them how to get to Picnic Beach so up the hill we all went. We took them across the top through the bush farms/plantations to where the descent became steep and from where they couldn't go wrong, then we went our own way following a track through the plantations heading south hoping to end up at Sacred Bay.

Mark Tracey and Lib

We didn't get all that far when came across a village farmer who was friendly and courteous but said politely that we were on his farm which was OK but there was no reason for us to keep going that way, it was just people's farms. We took the hint. He said his name was Toka (must be a common village name) and he told us the names of trees and edible plants and enjoyed answering our questions.

Toka the farmer with a bunch of Taro

 

 

This lady was so nice

We went back down to the shore after chatting to another farmer for a while on the way back to see the ladies and kids working away gathering pippies so we joined in. It was a lot of fun.

Mark and Tracey came back quite late to the resort, after walking back around the shore not wanting to go up the steep ascent. They left it pretty late and had to go quickly to beat the tide they said.