Canoe ride

We were given an assignment by the Guest Experience Committee to take the canoe ride and report on our experience.  The guide was funny and made it a delightful experience!  I do have some ideas I will share in the meeting but riding down a lagoon in a beautiful place such as this... can't help but love it.

We just happened to get in the front of the canoe.  Here we go under the bridge!

Past the pretty waterfalls and bougainvillea.

From Chris:

Back in 1967, Uncle David enlisted me, his son Arthur, and a couple of my friends to come to the PCC as volunteers.  We would dress up in our lavalava’s and bring our cane poles and fish in the lagoon.  Uncle David asked us to fish out ALL the tilapia as they were eating the Koi eggs.  We would sometimes catch 30-40 tilapia in a single day.  We would give them to the villagers at the PCC to eat.  We never did complete our assignment – I guess that is why I am back at the PCC as a volunteer – too see if I can complete an assignment.

There is a fish pond in the lower right.  Little fish swim
through the sticks you can see sticking up.  They feed in
the pond and then they get too big to fit back through the
sticks.  

How fun that it ended at the Cook Islands!  Just for a few weeks, performers from the Cook Islands are here with their unique drumming, dancing, music and costume.  Their government paid to send this group of about 15 islanders here to promote travel to the Cook Islands.  The PCC is excited to include them in the Villages!

This is the chief.  They are setting up to perform.  We will come back and visit with them soon.