We Get Lice!!
Trip Start
Jan 17, 2008
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Trip End
May 04, 2008
Mantaray,
Fiji
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We're officially sad today as we have to leave our little Utopia and head on to the next island. We woke up at 7.30am to enjoy our delicious breakfast again and then had to check out and leave our lovely bunkbed-free dorm behind us. This resort is the best of the entire trip so far...our beds get freshly made up every morning complemented with a traditional flower...hot showers...swimming pool...24hr electricity...and we met a really good bunch of people. But alas, onward we must go...
Just as we were about to board the little board that takes us to meet the Yasawa Flyer the cloudy skies burst open and we got saturated through to the skin (see people, it's not all sunshine here!). We only had a 30 ride on the Flyer to Mantaray, where we hesitantly checked into a 32 bed dorm
Honeymoon Island
. Yep, it's back to basics again with cold showers, compost toilets, and a mattress that's thinner than even Big Bert's! After Wayalailai we probably would have loved it but noow that we've had the luxury of Octopus our standards have been raised about our budgets!When the rain stopped the sun managed to poke out it's little head out in the afternoon so we chilled on the beach (a safe distance from the sea and deadly coral) and read our books. Somehow, another lazy day was passed til bedtime.
Tuesday 10th April
Let's start by saying that we are actually quite ashamed of ourselves as we managed to pass another day with breakfast, sunbathing, lunch, sunbathing, dinner and then bed!!
Sounds like we are living the dream but let's tell you the truth about life at Mantaray...the beach is gorgeous with an amazing view BUT venturing into the water we soon noticed ourselves feeling rather tingly, only to be told later that the tingling was actually the sea lice stinging us! Apparently they are harmless (and we don't actually have lice) but it still made us give one look to each other and let out a hearty "ewwww"
Hula Girl!
.Mantaray has decided to be all new age and go "eco friendly" which normally we'd be all for, but not when it involves compost toilets and the constant squalid smell of other people's no. 2's L
Finally the bedroom issue... You're literally boxed into wooden bunkbeds which we can only imagine is similar to lying in a coffin, with the mosquito net drooping so low in your face that God forbid you breathe in too deep and you end up with a mouthful of mozzies!
So that's us done with Mantaray and tomorrow we head on up the Yasawas to yet another island!
We'll keep you in the loop...
J & L
xxx
