Sunday is a day of rest on American Samoa. Actually, it goes like this: church, eat, sleep, repeat. It is forbidden to be active in the villages, so no swimming or surfing or hiking on a Sunday. For the contract workers (the palagi) here, it is sort of a hassle since you only have 2 days off each week and the reason you moved here was to enjoy the island! But we try to be respectful of the culture and only do things away from the villages. On Ofu, we asked if it was okay for us to swim and go for a walk on Sunday. Since we weren’t in a village, it was deemed fine.
Such a spectacular day. It was a real treat to be able to just relax with the vets and volunteers!
(click any photo for a slide show)
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- Sunrise over Olosega
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- Sunrise
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- Sunrise over the reef
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- Good Morning Olosega and Ta’u!
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- Ok, I actually took way more pictures than even these! Just SO amazing…
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- Our casitas at Vaoto Lodge
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- I’m ready to go for a walk!
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- Relaxing and snorkeling on Ofu Beach. Spectacular!
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- Ofu beach is National Park
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- Kingfisher
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- Luana looking up at the mountianside
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- Ofu and Olosega
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- Gorgeous white sand beach
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- Pretty much story-book paradise!
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- Water is clear and blue
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- Lots of kinds of fish, especially a lot of juvenile parrot fish compared to Tutuila
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- Fish
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- Many fish
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- Looking back at the beach and island
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- More fish!
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- And, shocking no? More fish
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- This guy was really cute, but shy
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- Mostly I got to see the tail!
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- Blue seastar
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- Eileen swimming nearby
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- Across the bridge to Olosega
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- Ofu from the Sili side of the bridge
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- Eileen with the bridge and Ofu
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- Nice current makes it fun to float down. (I don’t jump off of things)
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- Our volunteers from Tutuila enjoying a deserved day off!
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- Group drifting with the current
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- I think I did this 20 times or more 🙂
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- Pepa and Sylvia
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- Pepa and Sylvia
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- Pepa
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- Pepa talking Dr Leianne OFF the bridge. Actually, she really wanted to jump but it took a while to do it! (She did jump!)
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- Sili side of Olosega
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- Sunset
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- Sunset with Olosega and Ta’u
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