WATERFALLS AND COCONUTS. Honeymoon: Day 6

WHAT'S THE PACIFIC WITHOUT COCONUTS?

Back in good health is was time for a waterfall hike.  What's a romantic honeymoon without a waterfall?  All the brochures have them!  Solo didn't let us down.  He took a group of us on about an hour hike.  It was a pretty hot and sweaty uphill.  Don't worry, we're strong.  We made it.  He showed us plants along the way. Vines you can drink from.  "Sensitives Ferns", which Aaron remembers from his childhood.  They are like Venus flytraps if you touch them they fold up.  Mother Nature's little toys.  We petted the ferns that all folded in half just like Solo said they wood.  After a bit we made it to a little ity bity water fall.  

The way meals and activities work at Koro Sun is the night before they give you a list of activities for the next day and a menu.  You pick your meals and activities at breakfast.  Easy-schmeezy.  They had said you can swim in the waterfall so of course we dressed accordingly! No one else did but we were quick to peal off our hiking duds and jump in with our swim gear!  The water was pretty chilly but after the hot hike it felt great.  And even though the waterfall was small we still dunked our heads in so we can officially say we did that.  We're like Brochure People! CHECK THAT OFF THE LIST!

Later in the day we watched a coconut demonstration conducted by Solo and TimTim.  Solo did stuff like showed us how to crack a coconut, lets us drink coconut milk, made baskets, told us about how coconut trees are all "tree of life" in Fiji.  TimTim had the hard work.  He climbed do the top of the coconut 60-70 foot tree and tossed down the coconuts!! It was totally crazy.  Barefooted -- of he went. No net.  This is the real thing people. Count us impressed!!  

A few days earlier we were to go hiking with TimTim but he had to cancel because he had cut his foot on the coconut tree.  And when I say "cut" I mean a pretty serious gouge through the thick sole of his feet.  I know because Aaron and I knelt down and took a good look right after it happened.  I recommended antibiotic.  I seriously doubt that's in TimTim's medicine cabinet.  I bet there was something herbal (if that) and a day in flip flops.  Two days later he's climbing up the tree.  Me?  I got a scratch on my food a week ago and I'm still limping around like I've lopped off a toe.