My first few days in Fiji were kind of a whirlwind, people talk about wow, 6 months off to do whatever you want amazing. Well let me tell you once you have started a long vacation, it is kind of daunting you wake up in Fiji in November knowing you won’t being going home till May.
You soon understand that you are also in charge of meeting people, organizing things, but all at a much slower pace. I stared by exploring Seashell Cove Resort and soon found, it was not much a resort as Canadians would classify as a resort. It was clean, quiet and had wonderful staff.
Also an amazing view both at high tide
And low tide
Being from a land lock province, tides were fascinating to me.
I met some more fellow travellers and this was to be a common thing, before cell phones, cheap phone rates and easy world wide communications, new arrivals were a big deal. It was fun to meet discuss where they cam from, where they were going, long trip, short trip, beginning of trip, end of trip, etc.
Also as my trip progressed was fun to hear about news from home, politics, and hockey were also discussed among most Canadians. Occasionally I got mail from home, but more about that later.
Here are Ricky from Switzerland and Veronica from Boston, one of the first Americans I met on the trip and one of the most atypical Americans I met.
One thing I learned if you wanted to do something other than lay around by the pool or go for a swim in the beach, was up to you to organize your activities until I became part of a fun group which I soon did.
So one day we went to a little island excursion to do some snorkeling and this was a very cool trip for a number of reasons, first time snorkeling in warm waters, so many fish to see. Alas I was on a super tight budget of $35/day so no underwater pictures. There are pictures of our beach and awesomely detailed map of where we went
