Camp Life

For a few months we stayed in a camp in the middle of the jungle.

In our camp we have a hurricane bunker. 

My mum and Kian share one tent and me and Maisie share a tent. 

At night you alway hear crickets, sometime really loudly, sometimes quietly. There are giant fruit bats that have a 40cm wing span. After a while underestimate our tents it gets really damp. This is the perfect place for Mullacows. Mullacows are a type of dangerous centipede, they have a very poisonous bite. Maisie and I have learnt not to put our feet under the tent. They can grow to 20 cams long.

In the jungle it is very humid and there is lots of Mosquitos. Every morning I light a fire because the smoke keeps the Mosquitos away. If you put coconuts in the fire it's especially good for keeping away all flying insects.

There are a lot of rats living in the trees but luckily they don't steal our food. There are 5 cats that belong to Karyn and Boris but they often come up to our camp to keep the rats away. Sadly they kill lizards too and sometimes they catch South Pacific Kingfishers. We try to save the lizards when we can.

There is no running water, we have to fill up bottles and jugs. Our showers are solar heated bags like the army use. Our toilet is a long drop. There is no electricity, we use candles and torches.

I like camp life but I wouldn't like to live there forever.

On the beach

On the beach it is really fun in Tonga. There are almost beach's everywhere, on our beach there is a rope swing.

 

We also find loads of things on the beach. 

Like this:

I found this bird being chased by a cat so I picked it up and bought it to the house. Nobody knew what

type of bird it was.

This looks like sea weed but it's actually a crab. They disguise themselves to look like sea weed.

We also find really pretty star fish like this one.

There are also sea snake's

And weird things like this Sea Hare.

Game fishing

I used to like fishing in  England but game fishing in Tonga is a whole new thing. 
On my first trip I was really exited, 20 minutes into the trip we caught our first fish. It was a meter long Mahi Mahi (also known as dolphin fish.)

If you want to know were the fish are look at the birds. The birds are there to eat the smaller

fish. The big fish are there for the  same thing. If you see some black birds and a few white birds there will probably  be a Mahi Mahi. If there are some big Spriget birds there will probably be a bill fish (marlin sailfish etc) there. If the birds are going crazy there  will probably be a tuna.

The second fish we caught was a 1.7 metre Mahi Mahi .

Fofoa

On Fofoa it is really fun, we go swimming every day,

and we get home schooled.

Every day we walk through the jungle to school.

In school Kian teaches maths and science.

My mum teaches English and cultural study's, and Karyn teaches English and history.

We do school for half a day and the other half we do what we want.

 We usually go swimming.

Vava'u

We've arrived in Vava'u and we catch a taxi into the harbour

When we're there we are all very excited. We walk into a cafe called Bellavista to wait for Boris (the dad of Luca, Jack, and Felix ) to arrive in his boat.

He's here!!!

Boris's boat is called La Venuella , it is a game fishing boat.

Tongatapu

In Keliti it was really fun, as soon as me and Maisie woke up we went out side and starting picking

coconuts and bananas after a while we got bored. So we went down to the beach to see the blowholes.

This is the house we stayed at in Keliti.

This is the place we snorkelled every day, we called it the pit.

Snorkelling in Keliti.

3 days later the boys arrived their names are Felix, Luca, and Jack. We will be living with them for six months.

When we left Tongatapu we got onto a different aeroplane, it was very small.

This is the view from the aeroplane. We are going to Vava'u. 

Traveling to Tonga

When we were going to Tonga it was very exciting. We flew from Heathrow in England to Hong Kong.     When we were in Hong Kong it was really hot  - it was 45°.

 In Hong Kong we went on the star ferry and went to the fish market.

This is the fish market

We also went to the bird market there are loads of pretty parrots.

I was glad we left Hong Kong because it was just too hot

We had another 11 hour flight to New Zealand and had a day in Auckland which is a city in New Zealand. After a day there we had a three hour flight to Tonga. We arrived at night and stayed at Keliti International Resort for 6 days.