Graptolite - Tongan Feasts
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Thu 12 Jun 2008 04:31
Thursday 12th June PM
We arrived in Tonga early on Monday and found a mooring off Neiafu.
We did the usual diving trips on Tuesday in some sea caves and reef
drop-offs. The coral here is amazing with fans and soft corals of all
shapes, sizes and colours.
There have been a few Tongan feasts to get through since arriving, always
with some unfortunate piglets getting turned into table decorations. There
are a lot of piglets happily running around the streets here that seem to
have no idea what's in store.
Tonight's extravaganza will be a kava ceremony at the 'Bounty Bar' which
apparently involves getting anesthetised drinking something like dishwater
out of a big bowl. I'll let you know how it goes. If I can.
M