Dark View Waterfalls
Seaduced
John & Jane Craven
Wed 12 Jan 2011 00:08
When we arrived at the falls, we took a short walk from the car park through the forest and over a bamboo bridge to the base of the falls. Here we were able to get underneath the water for what Abi told us would be a pleasant massage - not quite, the force was unbelievable and stung your head and ears as the water landed on you. After a splash around in the falls themselves we walked up through the forest to the top of the falls, here again you can bathe in the pool, under a less forceful torrent. The water pressure is channelled in long wooden pipes down to a hydro-electric station and the bottom of the hill to provide electricity.
Wednesday night is the local jump up at Beni's beach bar complete with steel band. When we said we wanted to eat there as well, we were asked to pre-order. As we got fresh caught black fin tuna in the morning from one of the boat boys, we decided against fish again. They are selling us tuna, they are selling the restaurants tuna, and healthy and tasty as it is, you can only eat so much - but at least it's not mahi-mahi!! All the beach bars here have quite extensive menus but when you actually try to order the choice is far smaller, when we got to the bar in the evening we were told that the fish we had ordered was not available as the fisherman hadn't managed to catch anything and all they had was creole chicken - this was a bit odd as we had ordered creole chicken anyway. What it also meant was that there were no fish cakes which I had ordered to start, or any fish soup for John either! It also turned out that the lead man in the steel band was none other than our boat boy, line handler, and tour guide Abi - it seems everyone is multi-talented over here!