Thursday 24 August 2006 Spent the day in Nadi town. Eventually got to SEE Tai & the Kavaholics before heading out for our night in Nadi! First stop Ed's Bar (which turned out to be our only stop)accompanied by Matt (Chelmsford), Scott (Glasgow) & Valantine (London). Met up with Robinson Crusoe/Beachcomber guys and Ase (our Horizon Hostel host!) Played some pool, did a little dance then for some reason took a take out bottle of wine and back to th...

PADI 3 day Scuba Diving Course Tuesday 15 August 2006 - Confined Water Session Early morning start at Aqua Blue Dive Shop.... Firstly signing our lives away, getting increasingly scared at the amount of time the word death was mentioned on the forms. Once it was clear that we were not allowed to sue them if we died we were sent in to a little room to watch 3 hours of scuba diving training. Ellie getting herself worked up the more she watched (she h...

Saturday 12 August 2006 - Arriving in Fiji We were welcomed at Fiji airport by Fijians singing and playing instruments in bright Hula shirts! A nice welcome! Taken to Horizon Backpackers, our home for the next 14 nights - or so we had originally planned! Had a walk along our beach, which was nice enough but decided to make plans for the following day to get to a couple of the islands (as so many people had advised us!). A quick relax on the beach be...