Busama really is the best!

As you would have seen from the previous post, I absolutely loved my time in Busama. It was refreshing, relaxing and I had an opportunity to switch off a little. There was time for walks, swimming, playing with the kids and even snorkelling! A great weekend all round. I'm so thankful that God gives us time to relax and enjoy His creation. God knows that we need rest and His timing for this rest is always perfect.

Rather than waffle on too much here, I will let the photos do the talking. After all, a picture says a thousand words!

Amazing shells!

I love this little plant - the variation in colour is quite amazing and the pop of red really caught my eye

The smallest coconut palms I ever did see - I could easily reach up to the coconuts, which has never happened before!

This gorgeous little girl followed us up and down the beach for at least an hour! She is such a cutie :)

  

Even the coconuts bow down to the King!

This family saw us collecting shells, so they joined in and gave us quite a few of their treasured finds

The reef where I snorkelled. This photo doesn't capture how big the waves actually were!!

A local village house...

With some lovely locals who chatted to us for a while. Solange (back left) is one of the relatives of Uncle Guring and said that she's met a lot of people from all around the world. In her opinion, Germans are very friendly, Americans are very arrogant, Canadians don't talk much and Australians are racist. Oh boy....!!!

Off fishing :) This photo seems to have come up quite blurry unfortunately. Later that day, after we had been snorkelling, these boys climbed a tree, gathered some coconuts and opened them so we could drink the coconut water. After swallowing a rather large amount of salt water, it was so wonderful to drink some refreshing coconut water! 

Look forwards - you see sand, sea and sky. Look backwards - you see lush, green jungle! The coolest combo!

So beautiful...

... and then we came across this little lake

Some colourful sand, which reminded me of a sand timer/decoration Mum and Dad had when we were kids

The brightest sea star I have ever seen

Waltraud Kugler, Samantha's aunty who is visiting from Germany, came along for the weekend. Samantha is one of my students

We all spent a great afternoon in the water body surfing and diving underneath the huge waves. The photos don't do justice to how big the waves really were!

These photos, although a little blurry, capture the ability the locals have to carry huge weights on their head! I am constantly in awe of this

At night we let off two Chinese lanterns. A beautiful sight to see

Heading off, by the light of the moon

Where is Torsten's head?!