10/06/2011

Waterfall Day

The weekend before last, we hiked to a waterfall a mere 4 miles from our house. We meandered through a huge coffee plantation in full-on harvesting mode, through a forest of stunningly tall trees, including the magical and colorful rainbow eucalyptis, and saw a lovely additional waterfall on the way. Our destination waterfall was a glorious gushing 60 foot flow of water pounding into a pool below, where we swam. It was totally exhilerating to get so close to such an intense and wild force of nature. Asa and I swam around and Eva dared to get in with her floaties and stayed on the edge. All the kids played in the pools and on the rocks, and we had a picnic lunch in the middle on some big rocks.

After hiking out, we got to town in time to check out the farmer´s market and go to the best ice cream store in town--Pops.


On the trail to the waterfall


Rainbow Eucalyptus
  



First Waterfall
 

Eva picking coffee




The Big Waterfall
 
 
 
Asa and me on the rocks
Zena investigating

Eva looking over lychees at market

Eating ice cream at Pops

Asa and Zena on the train

Eva and Zena in their private heliocopter

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