Jungle

So much has happened since we moved here it's overwhelming trying to start this blog...
so in typical Jo fashion I'll put it off til later, and do a slap dash job for now.

I'm feeling Jungle-y today. So pictures of jungle it is.

Ben on a main road. (not kidding)

This doesn't look nearly as imposing as it is - the jungle looms up in a cliff about 100m high and the top seems to curl over like a wave. I live with minor background dread of a jungle tsunami.

Bananas everywhere. Unfortunately all trees here are privately owned. Fortunately a huge bunch costs 75c. Up yours, cyclone Larry.

I am so immature, but I giggle every time I see a banana flower leaf on the ground.

The harbour. The Rusty Anchor is around further to the right. I love the Rusty Anchor. It has $2 beers. All the time. There is this incredibly decrepit building on the ring road - you have to go though a broken door, head down some scummy stairs, then follow a huge old sailing rope through a myriad of disgusting corridors until.. you burst though into a room open to the environment, with a huge balcony overlooking the harbour and the jungle and the mountains and out to sea, and all the rusty old ship wrecks.

Hibiscus here isn't just pretty - it's essential for making Sakau. More on Sakau later.

Pretty.

Jo xx