Auckland, Waihike island, hot water beach, Matamata, Rotorua, Taupo, Waitomo, Raglan Arrived in Auckland on possibly the easiest flight we've had yet. Unfortunately customs wasn't so easy. I declared our tent and walking boots, which meant Kennys boots had to be disinfected and they took the tent apart and did something to it too. Then, I decided not to declare a shell I had at the bottom of my bag, then chickened out that I would get caught so riffling through ...

After a beautiful 2 hour cruise here, and seeing dolphins along the way, we arrived at Nabua Lodge. First impressions are good, beautiful waters, lovely staff. Booked into a dorm but we ended up on a beachfront bure so that was 'good'. A free upgrade, a little house to ourselves instead of a 10 bed dorm, what's to be sad about... It was just not for me!!! So our thatched room just spoke to me and whispered, 'I'm hiding spiders up here that you can't see!' And alt...

Eventually said goodbye to the Beachouse, spent the night at Horizon backpackers in Nadi (basic but ok as you could use all of Smugglers cove facilities and it was a lot nicer) and hit picked up bright and early by Awesome Adventures to take us to Port Denaru to go to the islands. We had met a girl Anghard on Leleuvia and we bumped into her again here, Fiji is soo small, so we sat with her on the big yellow boat. (Yasawa Flyer.) We saw soo many beautiful islands ...

Leleuvia = Paradise= the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen= the friendliest people I have ever met! It was our idea of Heaven!! The most perfect little sandy island, and when I say little, it only took 10-15 minutes to walk around. To get there, we travelled with the owner of the Beachouse daughter Maddie and Bruce in the truck, (the boys sitting in the open air in the back) to Suva. On the way we got stopped by the police for a speeding ticket, but not on...

We made it to Fiji in one piece and even better, made it to our Beach-house via the Queens highway: this consists if a very bumpy, windy, slow road which they class as there main highway! It's no L.A I can tell ya. Also our time zone is totally messed up. Got in at 5.30am FIJI time, which would have been 10.30am LA time, the day before and have to try and stay up until bedtime, I can't stay up till bedtime on a normal day, never mind having travelled for about 20...