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1 March 2020
A great tropical adventure I have to travel regularly from New Zealand to see Mum in Borneo. She is 93 this year. I often combine the visit with somewhere else in the world. After all, New Zealand is far from everywhere else, so when I travel I make the most of it! Back in August […]
21 June 2015
I set the alarm for 0630 in order to have breakfast at 0700, when it opened. I made my way to the main road to wait the bus to Nadi airport which was scheduled to go past at 0810. It arrived more or less on time. On the way, we made a couple of unscheduled […]
20 June 2015
I finally had good enough weather in Pacific Harbour to lie by the pool and enjoy the resort’s facilities. It gave me a chance to get out of the dorm room as well. I did have two dips in the pool and it was freezing. The sea, with the churned up sand wasn’t appealing enough. […]
19 June 2015
Introduction There are two outfits at Pacific Harbour that offer the Shark Dive experience where they feed the sharks underwater in front of the divers/customers. Beqa Adventure Divers is one outfit and the other is Aquatrek. I chose the former. In the back of my mind, there was the question of ethics. Should we be […]
19 June 2015
I woke at 0400 to go to the toilet. It was blowing a gale and I could hear it howl through the dorm. I had trouble getting back to sleep. By 0500, I could hear the birdsong and cicadas; I realised that was because the wind had died down. When the alarm rang at 0620, […]
18 June 2015
Above: Heading into Nadi town by bus. I love the open-sided Fijian buses. I woke early with the sun and dozed still around 0830 due to the 1h time change. I took breakfast in the hotel. It was fairly priced if one pays for it in advance at the front-desk; it seems strange considering it […]
17 June 2015
Making the most of the day I wish the weather would make up its mind so I could make up mine. It flicked between sunny, dark-cloudy and windy, prompting me to flick between staying in or going out to the beach. I had the day to kill before my 1700 flight to Nadi, Fiji. I […]
16 June 2015
I had breakfast with Richie and Andrew from Auckland who had moved to my hotel from a more remote one. They were going to get a rental car and drive around the island. I opted to do my own thing as I had done that before but gave them a few tips. I hopped into […]
15 June 2015
Anxious wait I ate my breakfast hastily at 0700 because the pickup was 0730. Becca and I waited at the entrance; she had been there since 0710 as she had to get here by public transport. The weather was still on/off with rain. After about 20 minutes I asked the hotel to check with Air […]
13 June 2015
Transport arrived at 0730 as promised to take me to the airport to watch nagol (nanggol) or land-diving at Pentecost Island. After doing the rounds to collect various guests, we arrived at the airport. The weather wasn’t looking too good with rain, light winds but plenty of low expansive clouds without a hint of blue. […]