Thursday, January 19, 2012
Coral View
Next stop Coral View Island Resort, we pack up and head on to our little boat to take us to the big boat and off to our next island adventure, it was sad saying goodbye to our first island, meaning that Fiji was going bye way too fast and we would be back in the US very soon... exciting but also depressing. Has anyone ever strived to reach a goal and follow a dream, reach and then think whats next? I feel like that will be what I was to face landing in the USA June 27th, after 6 months of legally drinking, to not being 21 for 3 more months...depression.
Anyway, we take a nice cruise on the boat for a couple of hours tanning on the deck to the farthest island out, we reach coral view! and it is a beautiful island, much bigger than the last with high mountains and a beautiful layout, not much of a beach though, but we get off and are starving for lunch. Check in and put our stuff on our beds in our 'hall' thats pretty much the only word to describe it as a hall pretty much an airy open structure with 20 beds in it, bunk beds. four showers and 4 toilets in the back. privacy is not something you have when traveling as a poor college student in a third worlds country, but theres something humbling about learning to coexist and share with complete strangers from all over the world, it was refreshing! We met a couple of wind surfers that had been there awhile and said this place had pretty good food, THANK GOD!
After lunch we explored and laid out on the beach and decided to see what this place had to offer, we hiked a little to the windward side of the island to see another aspect of Fiji and it was breath taking! After that we decided to go on a shark dive! yup a SHARK dive, pretty much we go down they throw dead fish in the middle and we sit at the bottom in a line waiting for the sharks to come then we ascend, quite normal if you ask me! We spent one night here and then our plan was to head to Mantaray Resort after the shark dive!
Anyway, we take a nice cruise on the boat for a couple of hours tanning on the deck to the farthest island out, we reach coral view! and it is a beautiful island, much bigger than the last with high mountains and a beautiful layout, not much of a beach though, but we get off and are starving for lunch. Check in and put our stuff on our beds in our 'hall' thats pretty much the only word to describe it as a hall pretty much an airy open structure with 20 beds in it, bunk beds. four showers and 4 toilets in the back. privacy is not something you have when traveling as a poor college student in a third worlds country, but theres something humbling about learning to coexist and share with complete strangers from all over the world, it was refreshing! We met a couple of wind surfers that had been there awhile and said this place had pretty good food, THANK GOD!
After lunch we explored and laid out on the beach and decided to see what this place had to offer, we hiked a little to the windward side of the island to see another aspect of Fiji and it was breath taking! After that we decided to go on a shark dive! yup a SHARK dive, pretty much we go down they throw dead fish in the middle and we sit at the bottom in a line waiting for the sharks to come then we ascend, quite normal if you ask me! We spent one night here and then our plan was to head to Mantaray Resort after the shark dive!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Night time in fiji
The un started to set and the only lights were coming from the bar so we headed over to get drinks and play some cards, after sipping our drinks i noticed some little black spots at the bottom of Stef's after closer inspection they were in fact little flies... this is NOT the type of thing you want to find after you have drank half of your drink, instead of freaking out like any normal westerner would of, no were had survived 6 months in Australia and one night in Fiji, if we hadn't died yet we weren't gong to now, so we calmly walked up to the bar pointed out the flies and got beers, we opened ourselves. After playing cards and hoping we weren't going to have fly larva in our bellies we got dinner that was really good and w=met a few more people.
After dinner we got a fire show! and got to watch traditional Fijian dance and hear traditional chants! It was very cool! I think we were in bed by 7:00PM, there were no lights and no way to tell, but we awoke to the breakfast bell and sunrise to begin our first full day in the islands.
After dinner we got a fire show! and got to watch traditional Fijian dance and hear traditional chants! It was very cool! I think we were in bed by 7:00PM, there were no lights and no way to tell, but we awoke to the breakfast bell and sunrise to begin our first full day in the islands.
Waya Lai Lai Resort
We were the third stop for the boat so we weren't on there very long, we decided to stay from two nights here at Waya Lai Lai. We had to hop off our boat and hop on to the island little boat that then taxied us to our island, where we hopped off into the water and were greeted by the staff BULA! Which is hello and welcome! We were introduced to the entire staff and checked in and taken to our room, at first we were going to be staying in a one roomed house with everyone else, but we lucky got upgraded to our own personal hut!! With a view of the ocean. SCORE! we headed to our fijian bungalow and settled in, they only use electricity at night so it was very dark in our little hut and there was 4 beds crammed in there and a tiny bathroom, which was also pitch black. The only hot water is what the sun has heated up for the day. After unpacking we set out towels in hand to the beach, and the hammocks and of course lunch.
Lets talk about the food for a moment, if you are at all picky in any way shape or form and get hungry often and need a lot of variety and big meals traveling cheap in Fiji is 100% not for you. I have never thanked my mom for forcing me to participate in exotic food of the week more than this adventure in Fiji. The food was good, and the meals were served to you. I can't remember what exactly was served to us for lunch that afternoon, but it was most likely rice and some form of chicken. We ate and learned to listen to people on the boat who have traveled to previous islands before us, apparently way lai lai was not know for its food selection, we now understood why.
After leaving lunch probably hungrier than before we contemplated what we had gotten ourselves into, but then went down to the waters edge and realized why we were here, it was BEAUTIFUL, words can't describe the lushness or the blues of the water and pictures only barely capture its beauty, bad food, confined hot quarters, freezing water, and electricity for 3 hours a day is all worth the view!
Lets talk about the food for a moment, if you are at all picky in any way shape or form and get hungry often and need a lot of variety and big meals traveling cheap in Fiji is 100% not for you. I have never thanked my mom for forcing me to participate in exotic food of the week more than this adventure in Fiji. The food was good, and the meals were served to you. I can't remember what exactly was served to us for lunch that afternoon, but it was most likely rice and some form of chicken. We ate and learned to listen to people on the boat who have traveled to previous islands before us, apparently way lai lai was not know for its food selection, we now understood why.
After leaving lunch probably hungrier than before we contemplated what we had gotten ourselves into, but then went down to the waters edge and realized why we were here, it was BEAUTIFUL, words can't describe the lushness or the blues of the water and pictures only barely capture its beauty, bad food, confined hot quarters, freezing water, and electricity for 3 hours a day is all worth the view!
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