Caqalai Island Resort Caqelai Island

... Eine schöne Fahrt an d** südlichen Küste entlang. Grün, wund**schöne Küste, kleine Dörf** und Ressorts.
In Suva kann man dann den indischen Einfluss noch deutlich** spüren, lange war ich ab** nicht in Suva sond**n habe dann den nächsten Bus genommen, d** mich dann an ein** Brücke in d** Mitte von nichts raus gelassen hat. Ich hatte den Tag davor ang**ufen und sie meinten gegen vi** würde da ein Boot kommen. So saß ich dann gegen drei an ein** Brücke, wartend. Ab** wie vorh ...

... dad made an underground oven, or also called a lava oven, that had 2 chickens, coconut milk sauce, and kasava cooking. It was so good, the chicken and kasava tasted like it had been on a bbq pit. In the afternoon Orisi went to play soccer and we tried to follow where he went, and we accidentally went to the wrong field at first which had about 80 guys playing soccer and rugby. We couldn't find him really so we walked around the fields and asked people if they knew our brother. Some guys ...

... so we all jumped in the boat and headed off to the island, or sandbank should we say!! He just dumped the 6 of us and drove off and left us on this pile of sand in the middle of the ocean!! Not a tree, nor a hammock in sight....just a round bit of sand!! I never thought when someone said before " if you had to bring three items to a desert island, what would it be?", that this would actually ever happen. I asked Phil while we were sunbathing and he said "my ...

... staff and it feels like you are in an aquarium. They take over 100kg of fish head and scraps down in a green wheely bin, you're surrounded by about 30 sharks including a 15 ft Tiger and 12 ft bull sharks. They are very well behaved and swim about 30cm past your face after they grab the fish from the feeder. These guys are amazing. You sit on the bottom on a man made platform and watch ths ...

... villagers below. We can watch everything they do, including the local rugby game every afternoon. Best of all the mosquito plague from our old house has disappeared. There are still 1 or 2 around that always find Pam, but a mossie coil seems to do the trick. The outdoor area is amazing, so plenty of bbq's when visitors from Oz arrive.

... back to the resort refreshed and ready for another day on the beach. Before parting our ways though, Juta invited us to have dinner with his family in the village and, although we would have liked to spend that evening at the resort and allow the impressions of the last few days to settle a little bit, we could not find a polite way to refuse him. Therefore, that evening we headed for Juta's house, quite hungry and curious (he promised us a dinner with ...

... And how better to do that than on the 36 foot yacht, Island Prism? The first day was an open ocean voyage. It was my first time sailing on the open sea, and wind and swells were kind to me. Captain Jim threw me in at the deep end, with a challenge; using range markers to navigate our course out of Suva. The markers were positioned on the hills above the city; to follow the correct course and keep away from the reefs around ...

... The place sits in a bay and as you overlook the palm trees you see beautiful flat blue ocean with islands in the distance. It has 2 bures ( houses) with a main eating area that you share with the other guests. It felt like we were at the Vidler house in Dunsborough. They have a jarrah table outside that sits 15 people and overlooks the bay. The guy who normally runs it had left for America that morning, so we had his sister (Paye) looking after us. Vuli did all the cooking ...

... All in all we are loving it here. The people ( Fiji and Indians) and climate are amazing, we have a great house. As soon as we get all of our furniture and basic items sometime late March we will be in luxury. Hope everyone back there is enjoying the hot weather. Im missing the cricket as they dont get any coverage here. They are massive Super 14 fans here and we get 4 games of AFL when the season starts. I cant wait to watch Saturday arvo footy in 30 degrees.

... house matters and generally be their for them and running everything in country. My first group of volunteers was after a few weeks of being in Fiji. I was in charge of 10 volunteers half were girls and half boys. The volunteers were doing a mixture of rugby, hockey and netball coaching but all were good people and easy to get on with. The volunteers I was in charge all of were all sports coaches which was perfect for me as I got on very well with them all. We had a ...