Two Lover's Point

We hiked today from Gun Beach to the base of Two Lover's Point. Two Lover's Point is a high cliff along the coast where legend has it that a young chief's daughter and her forbidden lover tied their long hair together and plunged to their deaths rather than be parted . Here is a picture of two other lovers with the point in the background:


Part of this hike was through the water along the rocky cliffline. We really enjoyed it, and all three of us got a little too much sun today. As you can see it was a gorgeous day, probably the hottest since Mom and Dad got here.


On the way back, I noticed two Blue Devil Sea Stars in the water. This picture came out fairly well for being throught the water.


Not sure of tomorrow's adventure yet, we may climb a peak near my house! I will keep you all updated.

I am actually envious of all of you on the east coast enjoying the big snowfall. I miss winter (a little bit at least), I especially miss the snow days!

Waterfalls

Well, after the three day weekend, I got a break from activities and exploring and rested at work today. Mom and Dad rested at home, and of course, up at the pool. Following our trip to Taurage Beach on Saturday and the spelunking adventure on Sunday, both of which are featured in previous blog entries, we went to Talofofo Falls Park on Monday. The waterfalls are pretty, accessed with no effort at all via cable car rather than hike. Of course, we decided to walk up instead of returning on the cable car, so we still got our exercise in.

This first photo is from the beginning of the weekend. We had dinner at a local restaurant at a marina. As you can see, the sunset is quite nice there.


This is the Upper Falls at Talofofo (with Mom and I in the picture too!)

... and the Lower Falls (and Mom and Dad.)

I was the only one who opted to go swimming. The water looked nicer at the upper pool, but the sign reading "No swimming, diving or jumping" discouraged me from going in. The pool I am in here is very deep, I could not reach the bottom even though I swam quite far down.


One last photo... one of Tom and I from the Jungle River Boat Tour we did the weekend before he left on his trip...


Thanks to my friend Nova, I now know an easier way to load photos to the blog using Flickr, so you should be seeing more updates from now on. Thanks Nova!

Spelunking Adventure!

Mom picked a great hike today! We went spelunking at Talafofo Caves, not too far from my house. It is a short hike to a series of five caves and a nice overlook out to the town and beach below. As you can see, we all had a good time and did a little cave exploring. Two of the caves had rather steep dropoffs which we decided we were not prepared for since climbing down involved ropes and headlamps.







After the hike, we went up to the pool to cool off. Here is a picture of Mom taken earlier in the week at "our pool". One of the nice things about renting rather than owning is that you can have a nice pool that someone else takes care of.




We had real treat after our dip in the pool. My neighbor made carmelized banana ice cream from the bananas on the tree in their yard... yummmm!!!!!

Adventures with Mom and Dad

Today we had a fun adventure at Tarague Beach on Andersen Air Force Base. We drove "all the way to Andersen" (you know, on an island, distance becomes relative, and 23 miles seems like too far to go on a regular basis). The hike at the beach was nice, some of it was along the sandy beach and some of it was through the coconut palm forest just inland. Mom and Dad are enjoying their visit, but I think they miss seeing two of their grandkids on a daily basis. We have a lot more planned for their stay, which is good, since they will be here for a while yet. Tomorrow, I think we are going to hike to a set of caves nearby then spend some time relaxing. If we keep up this pace, I will need a vacation from their vacation!

Here is a picture of me and Mom on the rocks at Tarague Beach.


And another one of the waterfall we went to their first weekend here.

Visitors!

Mom and Dad have arrived! They landed at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, and we have been keeping them busy ever since. On Thursday we slept in and spent a lazy day at the pool, followed by their first Guam dinner of fresh local fish.

Friday we went snorkeling at Gab Gab Beach on the Navy base. The harbor was a little bit surgey, and there were some equipment problems, but all in all, it was a good outing. Yesterday we did a car tour of the southern part of the island and caught the tail end of a Chamorro dancing festival. Unfortunately, the paper said that the dancing was from 6:00pm to 9:00 pm, but the actual event was from 9:00am to 6:00pm!

Today we are going to go on a jungle river boat tour on the Talafofo River. After today I should have some more pictures to post. I have decided to give up for now on posting all of the Palau pictures, because the enormity of the project is discouraging me from finishing it. I will get them up little by little though.

Tom leaves Monday for about two weeks. At least my Mom and Dad are here to keep my company.

On the granola bar front, I have created two more new recipes.. rather tasty if I may say so myself.