Showing posts with label Fiji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiji. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Farewell, Nanuya

Sunday afternoon it was our turn to hear the farewell serenade, along with our Swedish friends, and to say good-bye and thank you...it was a very pleasant and relaxing little vacation...
We've never stayed anywhere like this where you get to know
the staff and everyone knows you by first same...I guess it's
just the Fiji way...

















After lunch and the serenade, we continued the program of
relaxation, awaiting the arrival of the Yasawa Flyer
















Thus















Waving good-bye to John and Jennifer, from Australia















And finally pulling away from beautiful Nanuya















For the incredibly scenic five-hour return cruise to Denarau;
picking up our big luggage at the Mercure, and then boarding
our Fiji Airways return to California...


Nanuya Snorkeling

Saturday it rained on and off all day--more reading and relaxation and thoughts of Somerset Maugham and Sadie Thompson--and then Sunday dawned warm and sunny, and we put our last few hours on Nanuya to good use, snorkeling again along the reef that fronts the resort. I have added the underwater shots Vicki took from our disposable sports camera.





























































































































































Why I am not nearly so keen on snorkeling as some other people

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Nanuya Scenes

"Our" beach















At the Blue Lagoon point
















Around the point, back side of Nanuya, Turtle Island on the
right
















Prime snorkeling area off the point















Thus (we'll have snorkeling pix when the sports camera photos
are developed)















The supply ship  arrives















Swimming fuel barrels to the shore (for the generator)















Alas, it rained on and off all Saturday















But traffic to and from the resort continued















Thus; take-off is at http://youtu.be/SJtBaPOfq3w














Farewell serenade for departing Melbourne guests; on
YouTube at http://youtu.be/4bSO6vj1OqU

Dinner On The Beach

Friday night we had dinner by ourselves on the beach...Vicki's idea, like most of the neater things we do...
Thus


And thus















Us, perhaps a bit sun-burned after a busy day's touring and
snorkeling
Green mussels















Steak and potatoes















New Facebook photo?















Fun occasion







Sawa-I-Lau Caves

Aka the Blue Lagoon caves. We visited them Friday morning along with the two Swedish couples here we have enjoyed getting to know. Staff member Moses was our guide. All this involved a 40 minute boat ride past a variety of islands, and back, including a fair amount of "open" sea. Lots to look at. We were rather less impressed with the caves themselves, but that's often the case with travel. It's the getting there that's important, the company, and incidents along the way. We purchased a "sports" camera--a disposable, good down to 30 meters or so, like the one we used kayaking at Milford in 2009 that I didn't get developed until 2013--and I'll include some shots from it in the cave, as well as snorkeling later, whenever we can get them developed.
Moses at the helm, as it were, speeding us away from Nanuya
















Reefs and shoals along the way















Sea-faring Vicki













To me it looked just like Tom Hanks' island in Cast Away; Moses informed us,
with a wicked grin, that it was called "Cannibal Island"














Some of the islands we passed were clearly volcanic in origin, recently; others,
not



















Approaching the island of caves















"Righty tighty, lefty loosey"...a mechanical interlude a mile off-shore, as Moses
re-attaches the motor to the boat
















The Blue Lagoon Caves Centre...steps to the right leading to the caves, to the left,
the market, with beads, necklaces, etc., to the extreme left, the toilet, behind a rock
("pee only")

















Someone else's photo of the large cave...I'll have my own in the following post...
soon...
















It's all this weirdly-eroded limestone (plus beautiful waters surrounding the
island)
















Pretty, if tiny beach















We took a different route back, on the outside, looking westward to the Coral
Sea, still hugging the shore, where possible, and enjoying the reefs 

















Schools of jumping fish (I swear they were...)















And the many different shore features