31^st May

The previous day I hiked up to the top of what is recorded as the 3^rd highest free falling waterfalls in the world which was a great trip. About 5 hours all round but not advisable in thongs ‘slides’. It was absolutely breathtakingly amazing and once at the top of the falls you had to swim across a little pond and climb under a bolder to get into the base of it. If only my camera was water proof. The water cascaded down and had carved out a huge cave that was obviously deep and quite scary to be honest. To top it off the largest fresh water ells are also found in these parts and after sighting a couple I was a little wary alone out of reach from the rest of the group.

Well the same evening my mate Colin who is in the picture arrived into the anchorage in his yacht Maya 3, the guy who was responsible for convincing Fiona and I to dump the Med and sail to the Caribbean way back in Portugal. The last time I had seem him was in the Canary Islands however very briefly. So in true fashion I walked back up to the waterfall with him. This time though I took my Cray net because I saw a heap of red clawed fresh water crayfish in the pond the day before and I wanted to eat them all up into my belly. As soon as we got there I chucked the net in the water with a half rooted mango and did they go crazy or what. It was the first time I had actually used the net. You see like most fresh water crustations they are vegetarian so Mango and a touch of coconut was the trick but looking back I think I needed to have the food at the bottom of the net not the top as there must have been 50 little crayfish at one stage on the top of the net but only a few went inside. This was all in the space of about 1 hour which I was amazed about and if I was game for a third trip I would of happily left it in the water over night.

Also one of the sailors that came along cracked open a few coconuts collected along the way and I was fortunate enough to eat the sweat from the inside of one. So what it actually is, is before the nut turns to a little baby tree the center of the nut make a tasty little plant think that in encased by a sweet white crust like a lolly. About the size of a champagne cork and plucked out at the right time it actually tastes like a loll. Amazing.

Anyhow the crayfish were steamed for a few minutes and then stir fried into a delicious meal. Mmmmmmmmm………