Our real adventure turns out to be getting ourselves and our supplies from Ta’u island across to Ofu. The ferry is broken, the interisland ferry is on Tutuila for service, the seas are rough… Only one alia captain is willing to make the journey, so we wait all day for them to arrive. Cell phones don’t really work in most places on Manu’a, so you just have to get ready and wait! We were told not before 10 am, so we get to the wharf at 10. We thought we were waiting for a big alia… I guess it is all relative. We successfully made the passage, though it seemed not possible at first. We were dragging SO slowly… Then once we headed downwind and catching surf, it was much faster.
(click on any photo for a slide show)
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- Sylvia adding to the wall drawings at Eseta’s. She had been asking someone to start it.. Eileen finally did!
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- View to Olosega from Ta’u wharf. The waves were breaking into the channel pretty impressively.
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- Wharf area on Ta’u
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- More wharf area
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- An alia out of the water
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- Down the coast of Ta’u
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- Luana didn’t make it to Ta’u, she went straight to Ofu, but her wine and food came along with us! (We saved it for her)
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- We ended up with a long wait, so I took a swim ~ mostly because my hat blew off into the water.
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- Kitten waiting with us.
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- Loading the alia
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- Loading
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- The view as we left Ta’u
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- Dr Eileen enjoying the ride
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- All our supplies crammed into the front of the alia
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- Pepa riding the stern with Ta’u behind
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- Off the bow of the alia
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- Uh oh, engine not happy.
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- No worries, nothing that can’t be fixed with this large screwdriver!
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- Dr Leianne not loving the alia ride
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- Pepa HATING the alia ride….
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- View back to Ta’u
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- Approaching Olosega island
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- Rounding Olosega with views to Ofu
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- Backside of Olosega
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- Olosega and Ofu from the north
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- Dr Eileen loving the ride
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- Village of Sili ~ was destroyed in a storm and only one house was rebuilt.
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- Ofu island
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- The bridge between Ofu and Olosega
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- Village on the north side of Ofu
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- Sunset
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- Sunset off the bow of the alia
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- Entering Ofu wharf
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- Ofu wharf
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- Ofu wharf
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- Eileen and our captain
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- The alia docked on Ofu wharf
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- Unloading
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- Looking from Ofu wharf
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- Ofu wharf and our supplies
(mis)adventures 