Part of the entertainment laid on for
the guests at the Tongan Feast, included some Caribbean Reggae music, some bad Elvis Presley
renditions, and way too much “Holy Rolling” and “Bible Punching” for my
liking! These were all courtesy of the
owner and showman, who also proudly shared his Tongan history and heritage with
us.
After the feast, we were led into a
huge Cave, which was the venue for the traditional music and dancing
exhibition, which also included fire eating , and fire spinning.
Most of the show was extremely good, and
we have some great video footage. But, one incident stood out, and we will
never be quite sure if it was an accident, or, deliberate. We will let you be
the judges!
One of the dancers was performing on
a ledge shelf at the back of the cave, above our heads. After doing a bit of fire eating, he seemed
to get distracted by seeing me filming him from below, and he lost his rhythm,
and dropped /threw the flaming torch on to us. It bounced off Mary’s shoulder,
singing her hair, and came to rest on her “crocs”. The audiences gasps are all
captured, on the film clip which follows…… and the more times that I watch it,
the more convinced I feel that he locked his eyes on us, and threw the torch at
us ! Too much Kava perhaps??? What’s
your take?
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