On Sunday we woke up and left fairly
early on a boat to go to Peliliu, another island in Palau. It was kind of stormy and the ocean was a bit
rough, but it was kind of fun.
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| When we got
there we set to work fixing up the Peliliu SDA church by raking, power-washing
the outside, and cleaning inside. The
guys also took down a little shack and cut new posts for it (which was the
hardest job, since they had to go to the mangroves and literally find posts to
cut in the sweltering heat). |
Peliliu Church
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| A sea turtle we found on Ngemelis. We let it go safely. |
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| I guess this is called a coconut crab? |
After this, we drove down a long
dirt road in the jungle (I finally saw a Palau Fruit Dove flying into a tree
there!) to a little sinkhole. We also
saw some tanks from WWII, since a battle was fought on the island. We swam in the sinkhole, which had a little
cave at the back, and got nice and cool again.
Almost all of us jumped in, even Miss K, who was able to conquer a fear
of heights and water that day. :)
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| Driving in Peliliu |
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| Tanks from WWII |
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| Sinkhole! It was bigger than it looks. The jump in was about 10 or 15 feet |
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| Going back... |
Finally we came back to Ngemelis and
packed up. It had been a long, tiring
day, but we had really enjoyed it (at least I did). We got to do some service work, enjoy the
beauty of two islands, and have fun together.
I guess the stress was worth it, although if I could do it again, it
wouldn’t be during mid-quarter grading time…
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