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Oceania » Fiji » Yanuca Island May 11th 2012

Hi Fiji The grass skirt icthes a little but the draft keeps it cool, the trip was great, calm seas but a strong consistant wind made progress steady, no cell phone so see ya soon Ta Ta for now... read more
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Oceania » Fiji » Yanuca Island September 29th 2006

Last stop on this sojourn was a return to the Shangri La's Fijian Resort on the Coral Coast. We didn't think that it was all that big when we'd visited it four years earlier, but maybe the builders had just been very busy since. Our room was about as far from the "action" as it was possible to get. I'm pretty sure I remember counting more than 800 steps to dinner one night. I hope we were actually staying in the right resort, and that we hadn't instead accidentally wandered into rooms in the next resort along the coast. Our interconnecting rooms had TVs. Groan. Why is it that teens and pre-teens are so attracted to electronics. We could have stayed at home and saved a lot of money if all they'd wanted to do was ... read more
Shangri La Fijian Resort
Sunset, Shangri La Fijian Resort
Cooking lunch, Robinson Crusoe Island

Oceania » Fiji » Yanuca Island October 26th 2002

We arrived in Fiji late in the evening and spent the night in transit at a small motel type establishment that seemed to be almost at the end of the runway. According to everything we'd read, our ultimate destination was a resort on a palm fringed beach complete with pools, bars and restaurants, so we were keen to leave the diesel fumes of our slightly ramshackle overnight accommodation as soon as possible. Convincing Scott of this however proved to be somewhat difficult. He'd discovered that it had a small playground, and nothing was going to drag him away from it, well at least not without a lot of loud protesting. This did leave us contemplating the rather extreme difference in vacation requirements between us and and least one of our offspring. Our holidays would be a ... read more
Scott trying kava (or at least pretending to....)
Shangri La Fijian Resort
Scott under the waterfall




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