Fay Wray

Once on the mainland, there is a waterfall about a 40 minute walk up in the hills. It was a hot day, so Sonia, Chris and I set out earlyish to do the walk to The Cascades, passing a ni-Vanuatu grave site along the way.

Dead people, Vanuatu style

Sonia and Chris I had met a couple of day before. They were also on the island diving and generally laying about like the rest of us. In fact I spent my evening dinner of my 40th with these guys and we had a few glasses of champers followed by a few sherries....

Anyway, we walked along the roads to the falls arriving there around 11ish.

As you enter the falls, its more of a babbling brook type thing and the water is pretty cold and relaxing.


As you walk further up the hill, the cascades get bigger and the pools larger and the mossies seem to gather in bigger groups!

Halfway up the hill there is a pretty good view of our island and Chris decides he wants to take a picture. Out came his pocket tripod (which promptly lost a leg). Sixteen days later its finally set up and we manage a couple of shots, before we head off up the hill again.

The island in the background

When you finally get to the top of The Cascades the view is amazing. A huge waterfall pours down the mountainside and you can sit in the large pool below. If you can brave the tons of water dropping on you, you can actually get into a small gap at the back and sit back and relax. However, getting thru the water is a feat in itself. It's pretty amazing to have water pouring on you with that sort of pressure.



Once I got thru the water, I felt like Fay Wray and had a Fay Wray moment if you will. ....You know Fay Wray? She's the one that King Kong fell in love with and held her under the waterfall and then blew her dry!

Fay Wray

Me dear? Camp Dear? No dear!