After arriving at the airport, we took a van to Suva. It was a 3 hour ride with crazy driving. The music was up at full volume (and a weird selection) and tail gating seems to be the norm here. Our driver would sit like half a metre behind a vehicle & as soon as there was a vaguely clear looking bit of road (not necessarily straight though) he would overtake. "slow down for villages" signs seemed to be ignored. In Suva, we stayed at South Seas Private hotel. Suva is very dirty, it's kind of a shock after having only [View Full Entry]

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I finally completed my open water dive certificate at Kaikoura. The last 3 weeks it had been postphoned because of bad weather. The first day was really good, it was cold but just tolerable. The first dive was particularly enjoyable. I basically hung onto the instructor as he pulled me around the bottom of the ocean. The visibility was only about 1-1.5 metres, but I saw paua, kina, a hermit crab and a paddle crab. There was apparently a butterfish right in front of me, but at the time I thought it was a piece of kelp. I pulled a paua [View Full Entry]

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