Blogs from Fiji, Oceania - page 12

Last night one word can sum up the evening HORROR! The evening starts safe where we go down to dinner again I am unable to eat so just have a glass of coke. We stay down there for a bit watch some of the villagers sing then me and Laura decide to head up and just end today. We get back into the room somehow the bathroom is locked on the inside so after seeing someone throwing up in the public toilets we were not going to use them. I tried to use a hair grip in the door to unlock it... This did not go well tv shows are misleading. So Laura sees one of the staff walking past and asks for help. They ask if we have a pen knife say know so they ... read more

So we went out at this hostel on the night with the same people again. Laura had to make some calls about work to sort out what she was going to do. Gemma wanted to know a bit more about me and my ways such as my eating habits and with people due to wine I ended up going through my past about my eating disorder and past family issues. It was better to talk about it but that's stuff I keep to myself and don't go into felt weird to open up about it. Now we are wayalailai Island. It is officially hell... Kill me now or make me a raft to get off of this island. The morning was rocky as Laura wasn't herself she sniped at everything I said all morning in the ... read more

Cap’n’s report - 103 nautical miles over 12 Days. Well after all the waiting in Vuda Point Marina for crew I almost have some. One maybe, an English woman who really wanted to go to Vanuatu for the diving or a couple of Swiss world travellers (Urs and Marianne) but they can’t leave till the end of October. So while I considered my options I headed out to Musket Cove. I had last been here in 2011 with Lorraine. Since one, if not two cyclones had hit then the place, so I wondered what it would be like. On Sunday 12 October, I set off into a head wind so it was a steady, though lumpy, motor. The combination of head wind and short sharp sea sometimes slowed Hakura down to a few knots but we ... read more

Bit cloudier today and we just mainly hung around in the hopes the Mantaray drum would beat again. Unfortunately it didn't wah. Bit more snorkelling, lazing about in hammocks, reading my book (real hard work stuff). Another incredible 4 course dinner (diet is going great) including sweetcorn fritters, soup, chicken crepe and fruit salad. Played some games that the island organises, involved pushing a stone as far as you can as a pair without crossing a line, this girl Sammi and I should have won, but did at least win a cocktail for best performance - given that she was a dancer and did the split and then I swung her back round I feel this was well deserved. We then decided another night of drinking games was in order – by the end of the ... read more

Amazing buffet breakfast of pancakes (was not expecting this luxury). Again another pretty chilled day, you can't exactly go anywhere when you could walk around the island in 3 minutes. Not minding being trapped in Paradise too much. Someone's got to do it. Lots of card games, swimming, messing about with the go pro. More card games learnt – although I can't remember the name but this Australian called Ben taught us it, something about 2's?. We went on the snorkel trip that was provided by the hostel, and fed the fish some bread. They are so hungry and go mental for the bread flocking around you until all you can see is fish. People after those fish pedicures, just put some bread between your toes, they will just bite all around. Was lovely snorkelling although ... read more