The Legend Goes...

The Legend Goes...
Originally uploaded by mmfranke.

Here's Mama and Tucker posing at Lake Varavoi. The big mountain you see in the background is called something like the "mountain that an arrow cannot reach." Legend has it that a beautiful maiden once had a number of potential suitors, and she climbed to the top of the mountain carrying a scarf, which she attached to a tree there. She told them that the one who could shoot the scarf with an arrow would be her husband. But nobody could shoot that high. So, in despair, she jumped into the lake and became the "Pearl of Lake Varavoi" -- the small rock in the lake that you see just to the left of Tucker's shoulder (Tucker's right). If you drive around the lake, the rock shows the profile of a young maiden, and as you drive around the profile turns into an old woman.