A Winter Interlude ... FIJI

Early Monday morning hanging about at International

 Land ahoy at Nadi

BULA!!  Left ear for available, right if not - greeting given at the resort

 Palm trees, Hibiscus and flowers everywhere

 Looking through the entrance from within the resort

Late lunch with fruit smoothie

 What shall we eat

Some enjoyed Mexican fajitas

 Waiting for a table another night

 Worth waiting for - whole baby piggy back ribs

 I had some veges!

Stuart, Kate and I had a day out on a tiny south sea island - walk around in 5 minutes

Greeted by the locals as we come ashore - they have beautiful singing voices

It was a very tough day all day long, nothing to do but snack, drink and read a book

 Beach babes were everywhere

 This man spent all day in the hot sun raking up piles of coral, which he will then dig holes to bury so its nicer for us to walk on the sand

Stuart decided to learn the trade

 Synchronised kayaking

The next sequence is pretty self explanatory - how to get in (and out again) of hammock - all the while uncontrollably giggling!

Watching the sunset as we left the island

Sunday lunch with Eldon along the beachfront

 Piggyback afterwards

Last night on the way to The Cross restaurant to dine in style at sunset

 Entree Prawns

 Pumpkin flowers

 Scallops

 a small sorbet between courses

My eye fillet with a $12 side of carrots - all 10 sticks (they were beautiful)

 and Kates decadent Chocolate desert

 A very moving farewell song sung to us in harmonies as they knew it was our last evening

Await the taxi back to airport - Bula Bus just leaving - how we travelled into Port Denarau

 Kate and I shared the back seat :)

And the final farewell song as we pass through the gates BULA!

 James needed his dog most of the week and all the way home!

 How ever you say it ... it all comes out the same!

 Hello Egmont ranges on the way home - just a light brush of snow

 And over the Nelson boulder bank - nice frosty morning to arrive home