Blogs from Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji, Oceania - page 2

So I woke up in the middle of the night to my eye burring terribly. I had slept on the plane with my contacts in and fallen asleep the night before with them in. My eye continued to puss through out the night and was red in the morning. i then started to fear pink eye. But we were headed out to surf so i had to put the contacts back in and sucked it up. The boat left to go to the reefs to surf at 7:30 which is late in the surfing dawn patrol life but whatever. So we head out to the first spot willks pass. And the wind isnt right and looks really tiny so we went onward to desperations. Which didnt look much better but seeing as we all were desperate ... read more

We started our Fiji adventure at a hotel called Aquarius, smack bang on the beach at Nadi Bay, a stone's throw away from Nadi Town and the airport. The hotel itself, nothing to write home about, and the beach even less so (dirty, grey sand littered with rubbish and the odd stray dog wanting to be your best friend). Knowing that we only had to endure this for a couple of nights before our real Fiji adventure began (hopping between the idyllic Mamanuca and Yasawa islands) we made the best of it and relaxed in one of the many dual berth hammocks strung up between unsuspecting palm trees, dotted about the place. We even ventured into Downtown Nadi which was much less dirty, frenetic and intimidating than most people made out- it was a breath of ... read more

It was an emotional goodbye. We could have easily stayed in Mana Lagoon for longer but we only had one day before our flight and we were also out of booze. After breakfast we checked out and waited for our boat to arrive. We had the goodbye song sung to us and then began the numerous goodbyes and email swaps! At 11.30 the boat arrived and 16 of us boarded. It was a tight squeeze and as the back was so weighed down Mark got to hang on to the front of the boat and used as ballast! We arrived back on the mainland shortly after but only just. We only just avoided a turtle the size of a fiesta on the journey back. As Mark was on the front, he saw it coming and luckily ... read more

Exit Strategy From New Zealand: Rotorua To Taupo To Aukland To The Sky On our second last day of New Zealand we had a few things to do, so after browsing the town centre of Rotorua for an hour or two, we headed back to Taupo as we needed to return a faulty product. Fortunately, it wasn't far out of the way and we spent some more time in the Taupo centre. Hitting the road again in the afternoon, we headed up in an Auckland direction. A quick stop in Hamilton was on the cards, which is another sizable city in the North Island. It loved it's one way road systems so it proved fun to navigate around. By the time we got close to Auckland, it was into the dark night and there was copious ... read more

Nothing much to report today, got packed up, checked out and headed to the airport, turned out we had a 4 hour delay which is not good with a bit of a hangover so we hijacked 4 chairs each and went to sleep! We did get a free lunch though which was good and met Gun and Leaf again! They are stalking us I think! ha ha! So arrived in Auckland quite later than expected, found some accom and headed there in the shuttle bus - exciting times I know, I bet you guys can't wait to read the next line... yep, we went to bed! Night Night! xxx Sorry no photos today and my camera battery has just died so I can't even put any random ones on here! Sorry!... read more