KADAVULAILAI ISLAND - Bounty Island Resort was where we spent our last night off the mainland and due to the boat apparently running on ‘Fijian time’ we arrived in pitch black…. quite a unique experience being in the middle of the ocean at night on a boat that would struggle to cross the river Aire, we landed safe and sound though to a different but equally beautiful island. This was the smallest island we visited (bearing in mind the others were tiny too...

Bula! (Hello in Fijian..... said 100 times a day at least) As we would not have enough time to visit the several hundred islands that consist of Fiji (much to Joanna’s disappointment) we settled for three Yasawa islands plus one Mamanuca island. We had an early start up at 6.30am for our ‘awesome breakfast’ before pick up at 7.15am…. it was a short drive to Denarau Port followed by a chaotic check-in process before boarding the Yasawa Flyer (a huge yello...

Our flight from Auckland took just over 4 hours landing in Nadi at about 9pm on the 23rd...... we immediately felt the heat compared to NZ. We had managed amongst the chaos of rushing back to Auckland to find a quick half hour in the Flight Centre to sort out our Fiji accommodation; we ended up booking two nights in the Aquarius Hotel and a 7 day 6 night trip around the Yasawa / Mamanuca islands….. on arrival at the airport we were picked up by the hotel bus an...