Our second and third day have been full of fun and some very wet adventures! Yesterday we played in the ocean for a long time, acting like we were little kids again. Juanjo of course tackled me right away, throwing me down in the water before I could get timid about the cold. Good thing, because it wasn’t cold at all—it was warm enough to play for as long as we wanted, despite the clouds and light misty rain.
Today we hiked through Hawaiian rainforest where we saw a couple of wild boars, and fought our way through tall undergrowth on a sometimes invisible path. What began as a manageable rainstorm turned to torrential downpours after we’d waded through a manageable river-crossing. The air smelled of vegetation and freshly fallen rain. We hiked through a narrow rainforest path to the second river crossing and found ourselves face to face with a roaring body of water that there was no way we were getting across on foot. So we walked back through the forest, jumping over puddles and trying to avoid especially muddy spots, until we got to our first crossing spot. But the water level had risen! I went first and then Juanjo followed, clutching sticks and slipping our feet along the rocks trying not to fall in the strengthening current. Juanjo did lose a shoe briefly, but I was able to recover it downstream. Good thing, because he would have had to walk barefoot through pouring rain for almost an hour to get to the car!
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