玲子的航海日記

Captain Hiro often said that "Sailors have weak legs.We don't use our legs a lot like walking,riding bicycles while we are sailing.We should go hiking to train our legs."
It was a Sunday afternoon.Most of stores were closed.The streets were empty.Only the locals had a little specialty goods display by the port."Where should we start our hiking trip?"asked Yuuki.We read the map and discussed zealously. "How about going to the mountain top?We can see the view of this island.How about the Mountain Limon?It's the highest.What do you think?"I said and pointed to a triangle mark in the middle of the map."That sounds good.Let's explore it!"said Captain Hiro. There was a big bus station near the port.The buses here were colorful.We took a yellow one.Most of locals didn't speak English but French.We showed the car steward where we wanted to go.He nodded his head and had a funny smile on his face.The bus went uphill slowly.You could see the shinning silver sea on one side and the green forests on the other.But the bus speed was...very slow.It was about 5 knots (1 knot= 1.852 km) with a loud noise from the engine."I am worried about its engine.It sounds over heat."Captain Hiro said jokingly.We all bursted into laughter.We were fed up with the engine problem in Maldives and now we joked about it a lot. The bus passed many little villages and farms in the mountains.Suddenly the bus stopped in a desolate area.The car steward waved his hand and yelled "Mountain Limon!" to us."Really? What the hell are we?"we all wondered. It started to rain.We were stuck near Mountain Limon with no local people around."Whose idea to Mountain Limon?"said Captain Hiro."Hey,guys,don't forget you all agreed with that."We looked at each other and laughed. We waited till the rain stopped and then had a cool and relaxing hiking on the hill. We hiked downhill and passed a little village.A cute boy peeped at us through the bush with his pig.I guessed it was a surprise for him to see three Asians walking near his house.I enjoyed the time and the fresh air in the mountains.We had had enough of the sea.It was great to embrace the green nature and exotic views on land.That afternoon we had great local food in the restaurant with a beautiful sunset.The horizon was tinged with reddish orange.Oh,it was a good hiking day!