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| Welcome to Tonga, Wylie and Evelynn! |
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Traditional Tongan Feast, served in banana tree trunks and complete with roasted pig, octopus, liu, ect. The traditional dancing and singing followed in a nearby cave near the beachfront. |
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| Hiking the tide pools at low tide, with the protection of the reef, except for the occasional spouting blowhole. Note the waves crashing on the reef. |
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| I wonder if we'll find any whales to swim with today? |
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| YUP! |
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| Quick! Gear up! |
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| Up close and personal with a mother and calf for almost an hour. One of us kept saying, "This is the Best Day of My Life!" |
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| She's huge! |
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| No visit to Tonga is complete without attending the temple in traditional Tongan attire. |
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| Happy 71st! |
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| Way too short a visit! |
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| Our Tongan Mission President Tupou and his family from Alaska. The boys are learning to speak Tongan and are attending school here for 3 years. |
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| Tonga Service Center employees and missionaries, people we live by and work with. Our Self-Reliance Manager for Tonga is next to Dick in the blue dress. She is an amazing, very competant woman. The other caucasion missionary couple in the photo are from Inkom, Idaho and serve here as humanitarian/Welfare missionaries. The big boss (temporal affairs manager for Tonga) didn't make it. We passed him pulling his boat home from fishing as we drove to work that morning after the photo. |
