It is amazing how quickly time passes here in Pohnpei and how busy you can be! I honestly don’t know where the days go. For one reason or another I haven’t been able to update our blog for a while but I promise to try harder and post more regularly.
A couple of weeks ago the kids had Monday off school. In typical island fashion there was no note sent home…the news just went around via the “coconut express”. So a couple of other families and I decided to take the kids to Nahlap Island Resort for the day. Getting to Nahlap is an adventure in itself. You drive for an hour by car on a windy, narrow road and the last bit is a dirt track that descends sharply. My car isn’t a four-wheel drive and I was pretty nervous. Zara was really scared and cried the whole way down.
Then you all pile into one of the “banana” boats and take a 20 minute trip across to the island. The island is long and narrow and in some parts it is only a couple of metres across. There are “nahs” scattered all over the island which you hire for the day. The boat drivers are great and carry all of your gear into the nahs for you. This is very handy as the pontoon and jetty are certainly a challenge to traverse.
Our nahs had a ladder up to a second floor and the kids loved to play upstairs but the floor boards had gaps between them so you had to watch out otherwise you would end up with a shower of sand in your lunch! Most of the island is coral but there are a couple of lovely sandy parts for the kids to play. You can also hire canoes and there are waterslides (though not as we know them!) and rope swings. Even though it rained for some of the day we all had a great time. The snorkeling is pretty good and we saw some of the bluest starfish I have ever seen. We didn’t go out to the drop-off (about 500 metres from the shore there is a drop-off of several kilometers). It is a great place to go diving – but it also a bit nerve racking – so we will do that next time when Paul comes.
Kaselehlie!
Louise
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