Jaco

Happy Easter! 

The 10 hour trip to Jaco Island started early Friday morning. I took my motion sickness pills and headed east on the extremely bumping roads.  The downside was that I slept most of the way. However, I managed to wake up for lunch and for a couple stops along the way. We stopped for lunch at the Pousada in Baucau and I got to see a family of monkeys! We also stopped a couple times to cool the car down and let the water stop boiling! Cute little kids carried jugs of water over to us so we could refill our car. We continued on the bumpy, rocky, dirt road and I took pictures along the way. Almost every person we drove by smiled and waved. The people in the districts were so incredibly sweet and so happy to see us.

We arrived to a gorgeous sunset of pink clouds and blue sea that all blended into slight purple. Jaco was by far the most exquisite place I've ever seen! Paradise. Jaco Island is a national park so we couldn't camp on the beach over night, but camped on the white sand beach on the shores of Tutuala, East Timor. The water was the most turquoise clear blue I'd ever seen. Saturday morning we had a fisherman take us in his boat to Jaco island. I relaxed on the beach, snorkeled and took in the most amazing views. I was in awe the entire time. 

When the fisherman picked us up in the afternoon we bought a few fish from the ones he caught and he grilled them for us! The most magical moment was when we went for a swim after dinner, it started to rain and then a huge full DOUBLE rainbow appeared over Jaco Island. Sorry no picture of the double rainbow, I was having too much fun swimming to go get my camera. There was a permanent smile on my face the whole weekend. 

Fishermen

Jaco Island

Carlos, Meredith, & Mistina 

On Jaco looking at rain clouds over Tutuala

Me