Sella Bay

Carlton is home now and will be hanging around for a while, so we took advantage of the long weekend!  On our last hike (up Mount Jumullong), the couple we ran into told us about a couple hikes in the area that they really enjoyed, so we decided to try one of them. Monday we hiked down to Sella Bay which is on the south coast of Guam and the site of the ancient Chamorro village of Sidya.

It was a very jungly hike and somewhat slippery in some areas where the mud was packed hard. Going down to the bay was fairly easy and right at the coast you come to the Old Spanish Bridge.

One of the creek crossings.

Wild orchids along the trail.

Looks like pineapple but they're on trees...

Sella River that flows under the Spanish Bridge

Spanish Bridge

Spanish Bridge

I call these jellyfish flowers. No idea what the actual name is.

Bridge with the coast in the background.

More of the jungle along the trail.

View along the trail.

Then we walked along the coastline for a bit to check out the area. Very interesting beach with rock all along the water, so not very friendly to bare feet. The rock is either volcanic or limestone, so very craggy and sharp!

Coastline

Interesting rock formations

Random huge rock/mound on the beach

More of the coastline

There are six parachutes going into the water, top left.

Funky rock!

Several areas of rock with these cool colors!

The landscape of rock

More funky colors in the rock

Ancient beehive oven remains

Fireworks flower (our name for it)

Spanish bridge from the coast

The coastline had a lot of interesting rock formations and tons of hermit crabs along the way! We brought our bathing suits but after checking out the sharp rocks along the water, we opted to stay on the land. There is supposed to be other ruins of the ancient village to see but we could not locate them.

The hike back up the trail was challenging. It didn't help that we lost track of the trail ribbons at one point and realized that we were no longer on the trail. So we spent a good fifteen minutes backtracking to find the trail before we could continue. There is a 440 foot elevation change with this hike and I definitely felt all 440 feet on the way back up!! Could also have something to do with the 88 degrees and 80%-ish humidity. We were definitely sweaty at the end of that hike!! Not to mention very happy to get into our air conditioned car! Another hike on Guam has been conquered!!