Ok, so it’s been a long
time since I posted, very slack of me.
Now where were we..?
Oh that’s right, stranded in Tonga after I mutinied off the yacht
and wondering where to go, what to do and how to get home again. A little bit of online research and I was off
in a taxi to check out some accommodation for the week, there were some real
shitholes… I mean ‘simple, rustic….’
Na they were shitholes. But a place I had looked at online turned out
to be a winner, Winnie’s Guesthouse.
Being the sociable guy I am, I had made some friends already and ended
up going out with some locals a couple of nights, the Tongan’s are extremely
friendly and sociable. But it was soon
time to head for Fiji, where I had absolutely no plan of attack and would be
going in blind, a backpacker place booked for my first night in Nadi was the
only certainty.
As always I get chatting to people at the airport in Nadi, trying to
find somebody to split a cab with. I get
lucky in no time as there are 2 guys travelling together, a $15 cab fare now
only costs me $5. Soon enough I am
checking into Bluewater Lodge, located near the beach and in the backpacker hub
of Nadi, a nice place with friendly staff, around $10 a night for a bunk bed in
a dorm room.
As I’m travelling solo, the owners soon invite me to join them for
a drink, we are barely into our first beer before a massive bowl of kava is
prepared and the procession of kava bowls being handed to me over the course of
the night seems endless! They were
amazed I could handle it so well as we chatted into the night. A friend of theirs, Tui, arrived bearing gifts
of some nice red wine and we were soon talking fishing. Turns out the guy owns an island resort and invites
me out there to stay for a few days and go fishing with him! Hmmm,
let me think about that one…. ‘Hell
yeah, I’m in!’
So having barely landed in town, without a clue as to where I would
end up in Fiji, I suddenly have a plan and we are to leave early the next
morning. I rearrange my bags and leave a
heap of stuff at Bluewater to lighten the load a little and seemingly before I even
have time to realize it’s happening, my new Fijian adventure has begun!
some helpful links for travelling the pacific
www.tourismsouthpacific.com
www.pacifictourism.travel
www.gotours.com.au
some helpful links for travelling the pacific
www.tourismsouthpacific.com
