Third stop in Nuku Hiva: Daniels bay.

This is another breathtaking anchorage with steep cliffs all around and a sandy beach for going ashore with the tender.  We took a walk to the 3rd highest waterfall in the world.   The walk was serine and the feeling of awe when we approached the fall through overhanging cliffs has unfortunately been missed in our photos.  It has to be seen in person to be understood.   Most of the walk followed the remnants of an ancient roadway.  Stone walls and pae pae (stone house & temple foundations) were seen almost everywhere for the 1.5 hour walk to the falls. 

The fall is huge but this is the only place where you can see its origin from the plateau.  

 The main waterfall disappears into another inaccessible crevasse before re-emerging over a smaller fall into a lovely waterhole full of crayfish in which we had a swim.

We were warned of falling rocks from the 300m high overhanging cliffs. Especially when it had been raining (which it had).   A bag of helmets is provided which we laughed off.   On the way back I found this head sized rock 0.5 of a meter from the path which was not there on the way in.  In not sure how much help a helmet would have been if this hit you on the head!