Blogs from Fiji, Oceania - page 9

That's a good description of visiting traditional societies around the world. Vanuatu in the South Pacific falls into this category along with the remote Lau group of islands in Fiji. Next week we begin our sail to that region and to experience life as it was many hundreds of years ago and continues today. For anyone interested on this topic, Jared Diamond has written several books describing bands, chiefdoms etc and their ways of child rearing, caring for the elderly etc. it's a privilege to glimpse into the past like this. Meanwhile aboard Rewa we snorkel and dive to our hearts content, plan our routes, eat like royalty and have movie night each evening. Some don't quite see films to the end!!! The boat song sums up our adventures and mindset. Gonna put the world away ... read more

After Edith departed for New Zealand after a few days in Savusavu, we were joined by Anna and Tabby from Denmark who would join us for a five week cruise around the north Eastern corner of the Fijian islands. We'd met in Whangarei and they'd joined a power boat called Atlantis with Stadem from the U.S. S/V Atlantis pulled in after a couple of days and aboard were Ernst and Inge - friends from 2008/2009 when we met in Apia, Samoa. Diving at Viani Bay with Dophin Bay Divers who I dived with last year. Long talks with Rashid and Natalie about the wedding and the Dubai ceremony as I walked along the beach and celebrated by running into the sea and doing a silly dance - true Tigs fashion. I had a little cry too ... read more

Rewa is anchored in Savusavu for a short while after clearing customs in Suva and sailing to Namena for a few days of diving and snorkeling.... read more

5th May - and onto the other side of the world, New Zealand, for a season of exploration in Fiji. When having a Mid-Life Cruise you may as well misadventure and the Yasawa Islands, Vsnua Levi, Taveuni and the Mamanucca's are just the places for it. I'm joining David aboard S/V Rewa in Whangarei. We met in Balboa, Panama in March of last year before sailing to the South Pacific. I was aboard Dances with Dragons with my friend Wayne Harris, aboard a 58' Camper and Nicholson hailing from Houston. David and I are sailors, divers and world travellers. He's from Maine, I'm from England and neither of us like cold climates, especially those continuous grey skies which loom for months at a time. We are tropic birds who chose to bask in warmth. Arrived in ... read more

Woke up feeling a little worse for wear so went to see abbey at work to eat my way through my hangover. Then I got the bus to Nadi which took 3 hours, I just read a book. Then I checked into horizon, had dinner and an early night! The next morning I was up at 6.30 ready to get my transfer to the port. From there I got a boat to Beachcomber Island, which was amazing! It was so small you could walk round it in 15 minutes! I sunbathed, had lunch.... Then sunbathed again! I got chatting to a girl called jade in my room, we chilled outside watching the sunset. After dinner Jade and I had some drinks with two German guys and an Israeli guy called Dor. We just had a few ... read more