Since I now had my contact lens solution at our tent at Rainbow
Gathering but obviously hadn’t brought it with me to Cinderland I had resorted
to substituting it with eye drops during the night, but somehow must have in the process lost one
of them – which meant that now my right eye is red and irritated and seeing
everything quite fuzzily while the left one tries to keep up, which is just not
ideal. Sarah woke me up quite early to hitchhike out to Pahoa so we could get
some breakfast there and possibly some new contact lenses for me. Unfortunately
it transpired soon, after quite a long time of waiting in line at the ‘Tin
Shack Bakery’ and a quite tedious ordering process, that Sarah only had the wrong credit card and I hadn’t even brought my entire wallet so we had
absolute no money and had to return home before anything else could be done. After showering,
lunch and having a long nap (sleeping next to a groom is apparently not very
good resting place) we went to hitchhike back to Rainbow Gathering to get our
money for further activities, and were promptly picked up by none other than
white-haired John who again was transporting two girls he’d found somewhere in
the blue canoe to Rainbow Gathering as well.
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| And this was a random dude playing a weird instrument while sitting on a palm tree. |
I was quite on edge because of my
contact lens and couldn’t really relax, asking everyone I saw about whether
they knew if contacts were sold over the counter here and if so, where - but no-one
seemed to know. When trying to find Koa, my reliable contact lens buddy, we
found out that he’d left because his dog Lono had been brutally attacked by
another dog around, which didn’t make the day any better and worried me quite a
bit. Sarah had along the way acquired the information from someone that Satori
had arrived here and so we went on a quest to find him by asking everyone we
saw, as well as just shouting ‘Satoriii!’ into the jungle. Eventually we found
him wearing bunny ears and a butterfly necklace by a tepee and we talked to him
for a while until we spotted John strolling by and asked to get a lift into
Pahoa because I wanted to at least TRY to find some contacts.
Unfortunately the Longs Drugs didn’t have any and said the nearest place where
I could even consider getting some was in Hilo so I resignedly accepted that I
would have to spend a half-blind last day here and so we got some drinks for
Uncle Roberts later and went back to the car, where we miraculously saw a car
pull up right next to us with Koa and Lono, who had a huge cast on his leg but
seemed ok otherwise. After establishing that everything was alright with them, John wanted to go to the Kava bar so we agreed to meet him
there after having some pizza and shortly after we went to Uncle Roberts again –
for the very last time now, which made us quite quiet and sad. Again we saw a
lot of people that we knew including Stephen (who’d had a lot of vino again and
could again not stop insisting how much he was going to miss us), as well as
Cedar, Shawn, blonde David and Keahi. To our extreme delight the band played ‘Rua Kenana’
again and actually stayed on for much longer than last week which meant that
our plan to return to Rainbow Gathering for the evening got quite delayed.
Eventually however, since all good things do come to an end, we got our stuff
together to leave and Shawn kindly offered to drive us there again. Once again,
really not much was going on there – a few people including Thiago, Koa and
Husamuddin were gathered around the campfire nearest to our tent so we hung out
with them for a while until Thiago started hinting that he wanted to go to
sleep and didn’t have a tent here, and since I quite owed him one for last
night, offered to share ours with him tonight.
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| Campfire guys. |
Sarah was feeling quite sleepy
too and so joined him soon while I bumbled around the area for a while to find
someone to hang out with (at some point I was sung a goodbye-song to by a
breast-feeding woman who insisted that she was Marie Antoinette in a past life)
and ended up sitting with Shawn for a while until it started raining too much
to enjoy being outdoors and he went back to his car, leaving me to return to
our (at this point very deflated) tent.
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