Fiji… LAST stop on our great adventure, FIRST day of the new year, and a rendezvous with DAVID. An interesting mix of beginnings, endings, and renewals that are in harmony with this South Pacific island’s beauty and charm.
We arrived at our lovely resort in misty, kinda’ showery weather, but the forecast looked great, so who cared?! Loved our nice, small, low-key South Pacific resort with tropical trees and flowers all over, a nice pool, wonderful Fijian people and an ok beach…we’re on the main Fiji island, Viti Levu, so it doesn’t really have the white sand and turquoise waters you would imagine, but we would day-trip to those beaches!
As we settled in, we were so excited about David joining us the next day!!!!…and he arrived by about 1pm! So happy to see him!!!! We spent the rest of the day lounging in the pool (probably 85 degrees pool water!) balancing on pool “noodles” and hearing all about his travels and experiences! So great!!!!!!!
The next day we took a cruise to one of those gorgeous South Pacific islands with beautiful white sand beaches and clear turquoise water. Lying in the shade under a grass-thatched hut, we all just relaxed and enjoyed our world…
Of course I had to do some snorkeling, which was really fun, especially being surrounded by beautiful fish as I crumbled bread to feed them…meanwhile, Billy and David kayaked around me…what a great day!
The rest of the week was more of the same good stuff…relaxing, reading, “noodling” in the pool, kayaking, snorkeling, walking on beach, sharing stories, watching beautiful sunsets…just the perfect way to end a trip after so many adventures!!!!!
One afternoon we took a bus into a nearby city, Lautoka, and enjoyed getting a better sense of the real-life Fijian world. While Billy & David enjoyed local cuisine, I explored walking through the very colorful produce and flower market, and loved seeing the beautiful faces of the children.
On most nights our lovely resort provided some kind of Fijian show on a beachy stage…whether it was just music, Fijian dancing, hula-ish Polynesian dancing, or fire dancing…it was all really fun and enjoyable!
The Fijian people are wonderfully warm and friendly…it’s definitely a “no worries” kind of existence when you are living in such beautiful surroundings. I tried to convince a few Fijians to come back to the East Coast of the US with me while we have sub-zero temps, but didn’t get a single taker!!
None of us is really excited about our Southern Hemisphere adventures coming to an end, but I guess the time has come for us to return to reality…what a totally incredible and amazing adventure we’ve all had…it was everything we all hoped for and more, and we are all so grateful for having had the opportunity to experience and share this adventure…epic!!!
