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Published: August 30th 2006
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Wednesday 5th July Had breakfast and said goodbye the friends I had made on the Wana Taki. Also picked up my $98 bar tab :-(
I got on the Yasawa Flyer (catamaran) and stood at the front, right on the bow as we raced across to the next island. We then got a really fast speedboat transfer to the Sanawai resort, stopping at the nearby village on the way for the guys to pick up their lunch... He came back with a single can of corned beef - the lunch for the pair of them...
The resort is pretty small (only seven people) and relatively new. Met up with two guys I had chatted to on previous islands - Adam and Wayne. Turns out they are from Bicester! Just down the road from home and had seen us power-kiting! The even know the same people... How many degrees of separation..?
Thursday 6th July Watched the Portugal vs France game (first match of the World Cup I had seen) while eating breakfast. Then went off and did some snorkeling for a while. Jim and Abby turned up on the next boat which was nice. I went down the beach
and sat and collected tiny shells (little discs with holes in the centre) for a bracelet to send back, everyone else played volley ball.
In the evening I got pretty drunk and on my way from the toilet I was invited to sit with 4 or 5 of the locals to drink Cava and listen to their music. I talked with Joe (he ran the resort) about the meanings of the songs, the current upset between Fijians and Indo-Fijians. I also told him how all the rubbish being dumped in the sea and on the islands would ruin his livelihood as it would destroy the paradise that people came to see... We also talked about where I was off to next - New Zealand for the snow- they all shivered at the thought of snow. One of them said he would die if he even saw snow let alone touched it !! LOL
Joe invited his sister (Veri) to come and sit with me. I must say she was the first Fijian girl that I found pretty and she seemed to have all her own teeth too which was nice!! Joe started asking things like "Are both your
parents alive?" and "Do you own a house back in England"... This was definitely the start of setting up an arranged marriage!! LOL
Friday 7th July Woke up with a cava hangover - not doing that again!
Saw the biggest spider I have ever seen in the wild, in the toilet shed. Didn't realise things that big were in Fiji - totally changed the way I blindly grope around for things in the dark! (If you know what I mean!)
Abby made me laugh so much at breakfast - she has an amazing ability to tell very amusing anecdotes. Her and Jim seem a really great couple and make me laugh loads.
A few of us went on a mission to find coconuts, trying to knock them out of trees and finding recently fallen ones on the ground. We then set up a rather slick, impromptu coconut husking and juice/flesh extraction operation! We managed to get through about seven coconuts before we were all well and truly coconutted out. Not before experimenting with various techniques to de-husk and crack them open and how the colour of the coconut (green to brown) and freshness (off the floor
Clam...
The insides are very colourful or knocked out of a tree) affected the juice/flesh - proper coconut connoisseurs.
While doing this a few others had taken three kayaks out to try and get to a nearby small island. It appears they all had leaks... They got about three quarters of the way there before sinking and (eventually) the Fijian's launched a 'rescue effort' - in typical Fijian style... Kept us entertained as we munched and reviewed coconuts... Funny thing is not only did they sink and had to drag them back, they had paid $10 each to use the boats!!
After lunch we got our transfer boat to the Yasawa Flyer, onto the next resort - Sunrise Lagoon, which was on the north side of Nanuya Lailai island.
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