Rental Car! & West Tip of Tongatapu

Woke up, ate breakfast, and got a ride into town to pick up the rental car! Had a nice breakfast of toast and keke isite (like donut balls). Lupe was a bit late to pick me up, but had run out of data so couldn’t reply to texts, so I didn’t know if she was coming or not. So I got a ride into town from her sister-in-law’s friend who was visiting. Turns out we missed eachother by probably a minute!

Picked up the cute little green Daihatsu Mira and started driving around for the day!

First stop was the very northwestern point of the island, Abel Tasman’s landing site in 1643. Very windy! Met some other tourists here and they happened to be Canadians, from Port Alberni and Vancouver!

Then stopped at a nice little beach, Ha’atafu Beach, with apparently good surfing! Met a little hermit crab here.

Next stop was the Flying Foxes, a tree where a colony of fruit bats (which are called flying foxes here) live. They were mostly sleeping during the day but you could hear them chattering and when they flew from one branch to another they were so huge!!Read more