Perhaps this should be the main photo for the Morovo Lagoon and the village of Cheke. That is, this photo of a man and his pregnant wife selling his beautiful carvings so they will have the money for the doctor to attend to her "at risk" pregnancy. We were so touched by this couple and their future child that after clearing out many of our linens for the baby, they told us that they would name the baby after one of us.

You have to admit that each one of these carvings is more beautiful than the next. Scott has no discipline at all, so we had to have many of these lovely creations.

 

 

 

These folks (right) invited us to their home and showed us around the area. Lulu (the husband) showed us the birds and some of the exotic trees in the surrounding forest.

We were supposed to be quiet as we walked through the jungle, but Scott & I were anything but quiet.

 

 

As you see, Lulu had bare feet and we just clumped along behind!

 

 

These are some of the wild orchids in the area.

He also had some carvings and artifacts of interest to visitors.

 

 

 

This little village is on a nearby island. As we approached the children came out to greet us.

These are just more views of the island village.

 

Just more views.

 

People seemed pretty industrious here and the village was quite neat.

This man carved a gorgeous table for us.

 

This is his wife and son on the right.

 

We were invited to visit the man that lived on top of the hill with his family. They said they preferred to be a little bit away from all the noise of the children at the shore. They're also safe from the tsunamis here - though we were told that the outer reef usually protected them inside the lagoon.