When I looked at pictures of Fiji, it seemed impossible that the sky was that clear and the water that blue. As we flew across the wafer in out flat bottomed boat, I could see it was reality. The water was like some rare gem that I had no good description for. I spent 20 minutes trying to discern what I would call the color. In the end I wound up with azure, which was unfortunately too boring for me. Hadn't the water been described by thousands before as that color? I wanted a new exciting color to match the beauty that I was seeing, but there was nothing new. Only tired words to match a matchless landscape that faded out in every direction into tiny points of mountains that pointed up impossibly from the ocean.
I wondered how it was that these islands were ever found out in the middle of no where. Did some unfortunate person get lost in a storm, was he or she cast out from their home, or was it something I could not have imagined out here in the ocean? No matter, the answer is lost to me for I have no ability to speak the native language. I only know English, the official language, but clearly not people's first language.
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Andrea I love your introspective comments on the awesome surrounding you both are sharing. My trivia checks tells me that Tom Hanks filmed Castaway on some of the remote Fijian islands you just left. And that two thirds of those islands are still uninhabited.You two have pick a great time to leave the rat race behind ( the world has financially gone crazy. But more helpful information might be that in college football number one ranked Oklahoma just lost to number five Texas in a shootout 45-35.
ReplyDeleteStay in good health.
Love you both Dad