Beachcoomber Island
I left the Nomal Skylodge hostel after the Feejee Experience dropped us off there yesterday and left Kieren, Maria & Tabitha to get some sleep after another late heavy night of drinkage...
This island is about a 20-30 minute boat ride from the edge of Nadi Town, and in its view is Treasure Island (where 'Celebrity Love Island' was apparently filmed). The island itself is very small, you can walk round the whole island in less than 10 minutes, and you can swim round it easily. I met a few guys and gals as soon as I got to the island, then proceeded to get burnt on the beach. Getting burned by the sun in Fiji seems to be something I'm good at.
I then took advantage of the free-to-hire snorkelling gear and swam around for a bit nosing at some fish in the shallow waters around one part of the island. I took this opportunity to use up the last few exposures of my underwater disposable camera I'd used to take snaps whilst diving the day before. Then a few other guys I'd met; Gary, Dave & Nina joined me and we swam really far out towards a beautiful coral reef, now I wish I'd kept some snaps free for this reef as it was again really gorgeous, we couldn't get down deep but we didn't need to, it was a really shallow reef and full of life. Once we'd done with that reef, we swam round the back of the island in search of more reef, and we were not disappointed! The reef on the right hand side of the island around to the front was stunning. There were fish swimming everywhere, all around us and it was fantastic. We all just kinda floated about a bit in awe. Then we saw a few catfish, bless em, munching on the sand at the bottom of the reef, must be tasty. We were out snorkelling for a couple of hours I think, and my skin on my feet and my hands turned very prune like, but I don't give a t**s because it was really stunning. I guess its also gonna help keep me slightly fitter than my usual stint at the gym every 2 months back home in Leicester!
I watched sunset properly for the first time in Fiji that evening, bang on 6pm and I sat round the back of the island by myself with a beer in my hand and camera in the other. Check out the sunset. It came around quickly and by 6.30pm it'd gone, but it was awesome and added to the great stuff I'd seen earlier that day underwater.
That evening consisted of dinner, and then we sat around a massive table in the bar and loads of us just got wrecked. I met so many more cool people, American guys who were just speeding round the table with a pack of cards dealing cards to us and making us drink loads, some English peeps and people I'd met earlier that day. Although I was tired and I hit the sack (well, a bunk bed in a 90 bed dorm!!!) early just before the bar closed...
A girl called Tabitha from my Feejee Experience group showed up the next day which was cool, I didn't think I'd see anyone again so soon and it was nice to see her, but I had to get the early boat at 11.30am back to mainland Fiji so I could get some stuff sorted. I wrote a bunch of postcards at the Skylodge hostel, used their outside showers and made my way down to the airport. Of course before I left I had to sit by the pool for a while longer and get burnt a bit more :O)
Goodbye Fiji! I love you!
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