Uncovering the Imu

Once all the people had arrived, it was time for the ceremony to uncover the imu. The imu is a pit dung in the beach in which the pig for the evenings supper has been cooking for 14 hours or so with hot lava rocks. They had a guy blowing through a sea shell which another lights the torches around the pit to start the ceremony.

Doze for a sec and miss a day!

November 18th 2006
I made it safe and sound to Australia and have just been taking it easy these last few days. Since I'm going to stay around here for a bit, not going all gung hoe into the tourist stuff and just soaking in the atmosphere. the internet was pretty expensive in Hawaii so am a little behind in the updates so this is the rest of Hawaii and I will talk more about Aus. later. I did a Luau the second ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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