At Fiji Palms Resort

Slept in till 8.30 am (what else should you do on a holiday?) and almost missed breakfast. Today was our first full day at Fiji Palms, so we did some swimming in the pool, (freezing, got straight out), sat in the spa (lovely and warm), walked along the beach, watched some Fijians playing volleball,

Beach volleyball

walked down the highway to the local shops and bought Ros a hat, did some washing, reading, sleeping, more reading, watched some videos, one of which was Sophie's Choice starring Merryl Streep. I had seen the first half of this movie years ago, so I was eager to see the end, only to find it spoken in Polish and German with no subtitles, so I still don't know what happened!

The resort is festooned with coconut palms and we are warned about not standing under them lest we be conked on the head by a falling coconut. Most of them have a "coconet", a conical device directly under the coconuts which catches any falling coconuts, with a bucket that can be lowered by rope to "harvest" them. Quite ingenious.

We have booked a tour up the local river by boat to a Fijian village on Tuesday, and on Thursday we will be attending a genuine Fijian Lovo, food cooked in an earth oven.

Coconet

Also met up with a Fijian called John who knew Ros's dad.

Fine example of Fiji engineering

That's it really, I have nothing to do and all day to do it in!

John the Fijian

 Ni sa moce! (goodbye in Fijian)

Pool

Communal breakfast