3rd - 6th August - Easter Island, Chile
Well we regret not buying an underwater housing unit for our camera even more now!
Not because we went diving again or anything which meant we would use it for its proper purpose but because I am a clumsy oaf and need one for daily use.
7 months away and 2 cameras down - this is turning into bit of a habit and an expensive trip!!
My downfall didn´t involve holey sandwich bags and kayaks (as did James´ Fiji efforts) but merely the mother of all downpours, clinging onto the back of a quad at 60km per hour and not having my superdooper-paclite-Goretex-protects-you-in-all-weather zip done up properly......bugger!!
....so we missed our flight, buggered the camera and had quad puncture on the top of a mountain 20km from civilisation.....Unlucky Geoff clearly passed the genes onto me!!
Despite this we had a fantastic time and it was worth the temporary hassles - James says it was possibly one of his fave places!
Roaming about on our quad, on this pretty much deserted island in the sun (and rain!) was wonderful. The huge stone swedes we had gone to see are simply enormous and look amazing (almost eerie) scattered around the shores of the island. Most of the heads around the coastline have all been toppled and destroyed when the people began to war amongst themselves years and years ago.
The quarry where they were originally carved was an incredible sight with so many heads left standing, still waiting to be taken to their final resting places. How they actually carved them and transported them is still a mystery, although many archeologists have their own conflicting ideas.
We´re waiting with fingers and toes crossed that the memory stick hasn´t gone to the great memory stick place in the sky and that we´ll be able to salvage our pics! We´re trawling Santiago now for a new camera (for one of us to destroy, somehow involving water no doubt!) ready for our flights to Lima then Cuzco, where we start our trek to Macchu Picchu on the 10th (at 4:30am - ugh!)
Not because we went diving again or anything which meant we would use it for its proper purpose but because I am a clumsy oaf and need one for daily use.
7 months away and 2 cameras down - this is turning into bit of a habit and an expensive trip!!
My downfall didn´t involve holey sandwich bags and kayaks (as did James´ Fiji efforts) but merely the mother of all downpours, clinging onto the back of a quad at 60km per hour and not having my superdooper-paclite-Goretex-protects-you-in-all-weather zip done up properly......bugger!!
....so we missed our flight, buggered the camera and had quad puncture on the top of a mountain 20km from civilisation.....Unlucky Geoff clearly passed the genes onto me!!
Despite this we had a fantastic time and it was worth the temporary hassles - James says it was possibly one of his fave places!
Roaming about on our quad, on this pretty much deserted island in the sun (and rain!) was wonderful. The huge stone swedes we had gone to see are simply enormous and look amazing (almost eerie) scattered around the shores of the island. Most of the heads around the coastline have all been toppled and destroyed when the people began to war amongst themselves years and years ago.
The quarry where they were originally carved was an incredible sight with so many heads left standing, still waiting to be taken to their final resting places. How they actually carved them and transported them is still a mystery, although many archeologists have their own conflicting ideas.
We´re waiting with fingers and toes crossed that the memory stick hasn´t gone to the great memory stick place in the sky and that we´ll be able to salvage our pics! We´re trawling Santiago now for a new camera (for one of us to destroy, somehow involving water no doubt!) ready for our flights to Lima then Cuzco, where we start our trek to Macchu Picchu on the 10th (at 4:30am - ugh!)
posted by Polly and James at Sunday, August 07, 2005
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