Fiji

We left on Wednesday 14th November and landed in New Zealand on Friday!!!!!!! After meeting up with Greg a few hours later, all three of us spent the rest of the day looking like zombies. The next day we had a bright idea.... that was to spend a small fortune on a flight to Fiji that night... budgets had to be recalculated!!!!!

The first night we stayed in Nadi on the main land, where the mosquitos were there to welcome us. The next day we set sail to Bounty Island; home of Celebraty Love Island. Everywhere in Fiji you are greated by the locals playing the guitar and singing to you with flowers in their hair... including the men! Such a lovely atmosphere.

Bounty was a little taste of paradise, with only taking 20 minutes to walk around it. It was also surrounded by coral reefs which were great for snorkling. We saw some amazing colourful fish including one which was bigger than the three of us put together (almost..)!

The next place we dropped anchor was Walu beach. This was a bigger island and home to several beaches, but all of which seemed to feel remote and tranquil. Luck was on our side as we got upgraded to a gorgeous little lodge with several balconys overlooking the beach. Breakfast lunch and dinner all came as part of our package and every time it was amazing. The first night we even had a three course dinner.... no complaints there! Spent a lot of the time chilling in the sun, sea kayaking, learning to play the guitar and watching the shooting stars at night.

The day we left it decided to tip it down. We got drenched as we had to board a little fishermans boat in order to make it to our ferry which was further out in the ocean... everything went in bin liners including ourselves... it was funny to look back on but freezing at the time!

Fiji has hundreds of small islands and although we only got to see a couple of them we were pleased to get a taster. We definately enjoyed living on 'fiji time' for a while ('fiji time' is their excuse for being chilled/relaxed and never being in a rush to do anything).