Day at the beach with Neighbour

We went on a little trip to the beach with Elsie, Nyna and Asunta... not sure how to spell that PNG name.

We had a bit of a play in the ocean, a picnic on the beach and drove home.

Eddie is Elsie's number one neighbour. And Elsie calls him Turtle. I am Baba... because she can't say neighbour... so after listening to her parents saying, "hey neighbour, how's it?"... she came to know me as Baba.

The photo on the bottom is Eddie's "arty" photo of mum and baby. And it's perfect to show Elsie's cute little baby body!

Nananu-i-Ra Island II

Eddie thinks he can be a model for tourism Fiji with his little pose up against the resort wall looking at the sunset.

I thought the mangrove trees in the rocks looked very sci-fi. At times we had to walk among thick mangroves in mangrove mud.

The bag I am wearing was made from the leaves of the shrub in the picture above.

Nananu-i-Ra Island

This island was lovely. We took a five hour walk around the island during low tide. The terrain varied quite a bit. From mangroves to rocks to white sandy beaches.

The highlight of our stay was meeting a geeky French speaking, Montrealing and two lovely Australian nurse graduates from Royal Melbourne. oh, and the banana cake.

The choppy boat ride back to the main island was pretty neat too.

The Attack: before and after

A surprise attack from a whopper wave. Poor me!

Sweet trucks and bridges

Dodgey bridges and sugar cane trucks are some of the driving challenges. However, nothing is as challenging as putting up with plain idiots that over take on blind corners or just stop in middle of the road and start reversing into you.

I love Pandanas trees (see photo). This was part of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes walk.

At Natadola Beach there is a lovely resort that has bure style huts to sleep in that line the beach (well, they stupidly put a road in between the huts and the beach)... almost.

Sigatoka Sand Dunes - spectacular II

more photos from our time at the sand dunes. The waves were superb... and very scary. I stood in ankle deep for a photo and ended up drenched when a massive wave caught us unaware. I am still not sure if Eddie set the whole thing up or not.

Sigatoka Sand Dunes - spectacular

We we were so impressed with the sand dunes. We got up very early to take a walk. We had perfect walking weather. There's a lovely mahogany forest there too which you can walk through.

we're going on a holiday!

Robb kindly donated his Subaru Forester to use for 2.5 weeks so we headed off for a tour of Viti Levu and Nananu-i-Ra islands.

We're as excited about the car as we are about the holiday. The car photo is our first holiday photo.

We pass the police post, head on down to Suva sea wall... only to be caught in lots of traffic.

Goats hold us up in our travels too.