Day four – and we were lucky enough to get another dive in. It’s a Thursday and there is a cruise ship that docked early in the morning. If you have ever been on a cruise, typically when you get to a port, everyone gets off and does an activity. Which is great for them, but for us – not so much. It pretty much means that if you are already on the island, you are now second class. All cruisers get first priority on the activities and pretty much no one will book you for anything…so very lucky we made good friends with Leanne and she let us on the boat again.
This time it was to Twin Bommies. Bommies is the plural version of bommie, which is short for bombora which is a shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore. Although it is supposed to be shallow, this was officially our deepest dive at 27 meters and was the best for wildlife. There was some type of lobster, crab hiding in the rocks, we could see bits of him, but our guide couldn’t get him to come out – oh well, I probably wouldn’t come out for some strangers to look at me as well. This dive required quite a bit of swimming and there was another wall to swim along and had a lot of nooks and crannies. There were some more clown fish – a large family with three or four little ones swimming around. I think Keith tried to point out an eel to me, but I completely didn’t see it…
Somehow I smashed my air intake, conserving quite a bit of my tank. Mainly because it was out third dive and I was much more comfortable under water so didn’t need as much. When we started to ascend it is typically when we are at 50 bars, but I still had 80 which just means that I could have stayed exploring longer, but without a buddy it’s a no go.
Since we had the cruise people on board there was not enough time to do another dive, so we headed back to shore. Grabbed a quick lunch at the resort (by the pool again) and I was able to get in another quick nap before our next adventure for the day.
We met our guide at the resort and he took us up to the Cascade Waterfalls. We got to drive through town which was good, got to see all the villages on our way out. There is even a golf course on the island. When we were driving by all the guys were playing and the women were their caddies. They all seemed to be having a good time.
We got to the base of the hike and our guide, Renaldo, dressed in his soccer gear and flip flops started up the hill. He had extensive knowledge of the local plants on the hike and made us a stick from one leaf and a hat from another.
We made it up to the waterfall and it was amazing! We just jumped in and enjoyed the experience. Maybe not as much as the red headed American with the handle bar mustache that couldn’t stop yelling – but we still really enjoyed it. The best part was you could go under the waterfall into a little cave and look out through the water. Again it was really cool. But our time could not last so we headed back down. On the way our guide takes us ont the middle of a rock and tells us to jump into the pool below. Really? Where? “Oh just kind of in the middle.” Hmmm – okay, we jump and I must say I’m glad that I’m short b/c I still hit the bottom.
Then it was down the hill and at the bottom we ran into a wedding. It was a great place for a wedding, but since we weren’t invited (although we felt as if we knew them as the guys were at the resort during lunch) we just kept to ourselves. Renaldo did get us some good snacks after the hike. There was sweet potato chips, pineapple, passion fruit, and coconut.
Then it was back home, some more Go Fish and drinks. We went to Trrikki Island for dinner. You have to take a ferry over from Port Villa. Went to a really nice restaurant which had more than one vegetarian option which was nice. The boys went all out and ordered a flaming desert – dinner and a show.
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