A Christmas Hike

This was the best snow I could find on Guam!:)

During Christmas Break Christina, Maggie, Masense, Patty, John, and I decided to hike up to Lao Lao Falls and Fintasi Falls. We reached Lao Lao falls first and a few of us decided to climb down the fall using the rope that was already there. Since I was the only one who wore shoes to climb down, I was the only one who had the privilege of crawling on my hands and knees through a tunnel of sward grass (mud path with sward grass walls and roof:)) to the other side of the fall. I thought the other side was much prettier and would be fun to try to climb up, but where it was wet, it was too slick and where it was dry, it was too crumbly so I had to find the tunnel and climb back up the way we came down.

After a quick rest and a bit of a snack, we were on our way again on to Fintasi Falls. We passed through a little banana and achote plantation on the way. Since it was the first time I had ever seen an achote plant, I just had to get a picture. As we walked on, we came to a place were there was absolutely nothing growing. I found out from our guide, Patty, that this was actually a volcano and that must be why all the vegetation (mostly dry sward grass) suddenly stopped. She guessed that the last time it erupted was before anyone began living on island. Once past the volcano, we could see Fintasi Falls in the distance. It was only a matter of time before we were all cooling off at the bottom of the falls. We all enjoyed the work out and the beauty the Lord has created here on Guam. What a privilege He has given us to enjoy His wonderful works! Hope you enjoy them, too!

After we finished our hike, Patty mentioned visiting Chief Dagao's cave which was on our way back home. Did she say a cave? It was more of a little crevice in the side of the cliff along the shore. As we walked on the corral at the foot of the cliff, water splashing up beside us, I nearly passed it by! But it did have ancient writing on the walls, which was pretty cool:) so we took a group picture inside:)