Fiji

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27.1.2012

Sun shining! Some clouds - but still managed to get burnt. We went out for a snorkel but the tide was in so it was quite deep and not that many fishies. On our way back from the reef Sophie swam over a poisonous sea snake and never seen her move so fast! The snake looked up at us and was only a meter below us. Once back on shore we then saw another one hunting for fish. It was floating in the shallows with its head in the water. It has two lumps along its belly which we presumed were fish, which he had eaten. The fish were swimming close to it and the snake was darting towards them. We were with the other English couple Karen and Ian, we watched it for ages taking loads of pictures, Sophie even took a video of it. We got one of the locals over to show him it. He went over to the snake and picked it straight up. What we had all failed to realise, was that the snake had no head or tail! The reason the snake appeared to be making darting movements towards the fish was that the fish were actually tugging at the dead snake and eating it.

We had our lunch and the workers sang their goodbye Bula song to us. We will miss Bula time at Coral View (when the workers sing and dance after tea). Bula meaning Hello/How are you. We got back onto the big yellow boat and headed onto our next destiniation Korovou Island.

Again our bure is right on the beach overlooking the sea. Fresh flowers left on the pillows. We went for a paddle and a snorkel, however the tide was out and it was too shallow to swim, but we could still sea all the wildlife from standing up, we even saw a sea eel! We read our books on our balcony then went in search of some nice shells on the beach. In the evening we sat outside eating our tea overlooking the sea with the rest of the residence. After tea was the entertainment. All the guys were wearing grass skirts and did some typical Fijian dancing. They got everyone up and taught us the Fiji version of the macarena. I was enjoying it a bit too much and even had my top off getting into it. M x

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