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hello boys and girls. how you all doing? i bet your all soaking up the english summer?? i know i have'nt been in contact laterly but i've been in fiji time[chill out time]. not only that but where i've been staying has been very basic!! so no internet or phones!!! arrived in nadi on the 11 june. straight to the hostel. next day awoke and went down to have some breakfast and to sit in the sun. but hey no sunshine!!! thought i might of jinks myself coming from the cold in n/z! so went into nadi downtown. quite shocking really!! what a s***hole!! walked along the street and got harrassed all the way. come into my shop,good price!! adventurely gave in and we was introduced to the local drink cava!![no not champagne]!! we sat down in a circle,knees crossed and was handed a coconut shell cut in half with what looked like dirty rain water!! they drank first so i knew if they were drinking it i would be ok. you have to down it in one. well it tastes like dirty water aswell!!! after a few your lips go numb!! and apparently after having a session on it you get drug affects!!! thats if you like the taste of it that much. i had 3 that was enough for me. i'll stick with ny beers!! after they get you to buy something from there shop!! big con really. i bought a necklace and a sarong!! yes a sarong but not to where to lye on the beach with! so don't get any funny thoughts!! after coming out of the shop and walking down the road i came accross a market. guess what? what i had just bought was haif the price!! well you live by your mistakes. next day was fantastic. we caught a ferry to the yasawa islands. the islands being a lot better than mainland!! we was heading to the furthest one. it took us 4hrs to get there but we got to see all the east coast islands on the way up, so that was cool. they come out with a little boat to pick you up from the ferry. well i've just remembered that i went to another island before this one!!! so tell you in a bit.arrived at nanaua lailai,sunrise lagoon resort at about 4pm. nice and basic!! no internet,phone,tv,electric only from 4pm til midnight,cold showers!! did'nt mind the showers tho!! stayed in fijian bures[little thatched huts] o cannot forget about the mosquitos!!! loads of them. i got eaten a live!!while staying here i went fishing with a guy from the village for about 2hrs. i caught 1 snapper!! he must have caught around 12!!! we only used a line and a hook,no rod!!! thats too modern! anyway had the fish i caught for lunch,very nice. also went on a cave trip to another island. can't remember the name. both caves filled with water. one with light and the other with no light at all!! to get to the dark cave you had to swim under water for about 3secs. absolutely pitch black!! the guide has a torch to make it easier. nothing special. best part was swimming under water to grt to it. the island we were staying on was right next door to turtle island. costs 1500 a night to stay there!! thought about it,but thought i'd stay living likr robinson crusoe!!also it is home to where they filmed the blue lagoon with brooke shields and parts of castaway with tom hanks. the blue lagoon was definately paradise beach!! so nice. you walk out for ages and it would only come up to your waste. done a lot of sun bathing here next island i stayed at was naviti.where i stayed at korovou resort. alot bigger than the last place but still nice and even more friendly. singing and dancing when we arrived!!! here i done some more sun bathing but also went swimming with mantarays!!! how cool is that?? they are huge around 3mts in diameter!! and very quick. this was the most energetic thing i;d done in a long while!! left this island to go back to nadi,ready to fly to oz. but i think i'll go back to the first island i went to the one i forgot!!! don't know how???yeh the first island was off of the north of mainland called nananu-i-ra. this place was gorgous. if you have read the book the beach or seen the film,this place was like our own little community. we stayed in the treehouse!! its just how you imagine the beach when your reading it. met duncan and lucy and a guy called nick. really great people. dunc called us the famous five!!! we got well pissed on the first day!! local rum called bounty!58proof!!! mind bender!! next i started my open water dive course! gratefully we did'nt start until 11am cos i felt like s***!!! but hey once in that water and diving the hangover was well and truely forgotten about!! it took me 5 days to do the course,doing drills and don't forget the revision and the test!! the dives were amazing tho. i got 92% in the exam. but a lot of itn was common sense,plus you been doing it all week. no problemo!! also done some more sunbathing!!! drunk more beer etc etc. i think i can say that fiji is a great place to relax and enjoy the rum!! most of the time i was just walking around in shorts and enjoying yhe sun. loved it but now i'm in oz and it has'nt stopped raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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