One Month (has turned into three) In Paradise: Last day at the end of the road

Today was my last day at the end of the road (Vairao). This was also my first day working from home, from Tahiti. I think this might have been a bad idea lol.

I was up at 5:30am today, since my work day started at 8am. I had a long conference call to be on, so I did that while Mat and Tim went surfing. My work day was pretty rough. It got really hot under the backyard porch. I put the water hose on the roof and rigged it to spray water on the metal roof to help cool things down. It actually worked really well! I wasn't too bummed about not being able to go surfing because my toe is still healing up from underwater rock running yesterday.

I really didn't do much the rest of the work day besides work. I did pick a couple coconuts and Tim showed me how to open them to drink them. So that was fun.

In the evening all three of us went out to surf. The spot wasn't doing to where on the outside where i was needing to surf with the NUI Fourteen. It was really choppy and had a ton of current from the lagoon pouring out to sea (tide). To catch a wave you had to be on the inside.. and sure enough big sets rolled through and cleaned everyone up. I didn't want to break the board so I went in early. I could have surfed the other SUP surfboard but I figured I should quit while I was ahead. It's a hard wave only a few feet over razor blades (reef). One wipe out could have meant a end of me going into the water on the rest of my trip. I took the oc1 in and paddled around the lagoon. The lagoon was very glassy so i paddled around the coral edges, checking out fish from above.

After surfing i took some shots of the baby bird in the tree. I learned that they don't use nests, and their moms lay the eggs directly onto a branch or a Y in a branch. The babies just sit on the branch and wait until they are ready to learn to fly. I also got to see the mom feed its baby a small fish. I went to get my camera but when I came back the mom was scared off. The bird is called a "white tern".

We had pasta again, and just hung out for a bit after dinner, all of us on the internet, making fun of each other. It is only 10:00 and both of them are already asleep. They are probably way more tired than me because they took so much sun today, without any rash guard or sunblock. Crazy. I went through a whole bottle of SPF50 lotion in three weeks haha.

Tomorrow I work from home again, but we are going to hitch a ride over to OGs house to stay for the day until we take out flight to the other island...

peace.