Aganoa Black Sand Beach
This Friday I managed to convince Carlo to take me along on his surfing after work. Well, not on the actual surfing, but to the surfing spot. I’m trying to get him to teach me how to surf as well, but since you surf right on top of the reef here in Samoa it’s pretty dangerous if you’re to fall off the board.
Anyway, we went to Aganoa Black Sand Beach, where the sand is volcanic and black (more of a pencil grey actually), and very soft, deep and beautiful.
As Carlo paddled out on his board I went for a swim. From nowhere suddenly a wave higher than myself appeared, and the one after that threw me off my feet and up on the beach. The next attempt went better. I noticed that the bottom drops very steeply a few meters out from the water line. The depth went from my knees to deeper than I could reach in an instant. I guess that explains the strong waves. A bit further out from this the water was calm and refreshing to swim in, but I felt a bit handicapped without my mask and snorkel so I soon went up to try and take pictures of the very well disguised, shy crabs.
Soon it started pouring down in a real tropical fashion. After a while it was pouring down so hard that I went and cut a banana leaf down to cover my bag with to protect it, while I showered of the salt water in the rain.
I love the colors of the grey sand and the turqoise lagoon.
The light was amazing, and I had a great time at the beach until Carlo came back from the surfing.
As we went back to the car a fruit bat kept flying over us, turning and flying back 6-7 times just a couple of meters above us. I was as amazed as I always am by them.
We then went back to the SPREP bar night that this night served pina coladas (I might have influenced that), before moving down to Apia and meeting a lot of Carlos surfer dudes.