We did it!
Today we walked around the south tip of the island. Yahoo! What a good trek. We woke up around 5:30am and did not arrive back home until 4:00PM. A full day, no doubt. The early morning was the most difficult. Just walking up the hill to Long Beach in the dark, Ezra was having a hard time, complaining every step of the way. Even before the the real hill started. Even before the rains fell. Even before the sun rose. We stayed for a few moments at Long Beach to see if the sunrise might be spectacular, but nothing special. We found the powerline trail and started up the steep slope. The hike had just begun so I did not feel like giving Ezra a gravity assist. Viena was doing just fine. She was wearing her strapless Crocs. I was wearing my Native shoes. Ezra had his Croc Malay copycat shoe and Dwana had her Keen sandals. I mention this because the hike was hard on the feet. Little peices of granite kept falling in our shoes and irritating the feet. The rains started to fall just as the sun began to shine. Difficult to tell if the shower was going to be a big one. On the second big steep slope, I grabbed Ezra. The bugs were eating us and our day was quickly heating up. The rains continued to fall all the way to the fishing village. The tall grasses that we walked through appeared less creepy snce we were already wet with the sensation of rain. The fishing village was just wakingup when we arrived. All of the children were already in school. Men were seating in breakfast shops having coffee and the women were cooking. Took us a while, but we found a place to serve some food that Ezra and Viena might like. We found some Kati and cocnut rice – yummy. We could have caught a boat back to Coral Bay, but the day was still young. So, off we continued along the trail. From the fishing village the trail is in much better shape and we were walking along bricks. I guess they made this trail 10 years ago to connect the places. Now the jungle is trying to reclaim some of the trail. The trail even has concrete steps and railings at times. Compared to how our morning had started, the second part of the hike was a breeze, a piece of cake, a walk in the jungle park. Both Ezra and Viena had energy. the birds were whistling full force. We saw some monitor lizards. We went through Petani BEach and Miri beach on the way to our secret beach where I saw the reef tip shark. Glad to finally jumo in the warm water. Not that refreshing, but great after all we had treked. My shirt was drenched in sweat – again. Does not take much in the heat of the jungle. Ezra and Viena played taxi driver in the sand. We snorkeled a little before making the last push back home into Coral Bay … for ice coffees, cocnut milkshakes and pineaple lassies.
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