1st Port - Nuku Hiva

1/13/11 First time off the ship after 8 seadays. Beautiful Tropical Island. The people are lovely, laid back. We receive flowers for our hair and this beautiful kind woman greets us with pineapple drenched in another small fruit that's very red and sweet and sour and makes the pineapple look flourescent. They play ukeleles and carve spirits in wood and stone. We walk to a nearby church that is very beautiful - incredible old carved wood door and benches and amazing stories written in stained glass. They have lots of bread fruit trees which I am told by Pedro, a massage therapist from the Philippines, that they survived on this fruit during the war and you can bury them and they last for many months. We wandered into a school and then got drenched in a fabulous down pour and then back on the ship! Oh I have a new friends Sue and David, who are passengers, and we meet them along the way. My photos won't go through - hope to post them in Hong Kong.