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Sinead & Pa's Travels
In between waiting for transport to Robinson Crusoe Island we hung out in Nadi town where we met a very interesting Fijian called Joe. Joe worked in a souvenir shop and he is absolutely crazy but so funny. He was obsessed with 2pac and could Rap and say anything that 2 pac had ever said. But besides he was the nicest guy and was totally friendly to all of us. Even asked us to his house to show us how to make Lovo (underground cooking). He was so entertaining.
We stayed 2 nights in Robinson Crusoe, which was like a tropical hobbiton on an island if you can picture that. The island was tiny with only about 50 guests at a time. The water wasn't so nice and everybody got conjunctivitis from the water. yuk.
The nearest thing to technology here was filling a bucket with a tap on it with cold water and shazam you have a shower!
Went snorkelling again! This time out on the reef these black and white stripped fish swarmed around and was little bit scary cos I couldn't see anything except this big swarm of fish completely surrounding me. When we were feeding them one of the little f***ers bit me, that's the thanks I get for feeding them!
We did some coconut tree climbing, husked the coconuts and drank the juice-not so nice. Made coconut jewellery. Went crab catching where we ended up meeting a sea snake that can apparently kill with 7 seconds of a bite! We took a walk through this jungle part of the island that looked totally like the show "Lost"
At night all the Fijian staff would put on a show for us. They are seriously talented people. Out of all the traditional dancing they rocked. Dancing included all of them doing the best fire and sword dancing I have ever seen.
After that we had a disco in a shed type thing where they basically just played UB40! Oh ya Fijians are obsessed with UB40 you here it everywhere you go. I have a newfound love for them or else I've just been brainwashed!
At midnight every night one of the Fijians starts a bonfire on the beach, brings down their guitar and we all have a singsong under the stars. The doctor on the island (45 year old Australian) was on the island because of the conjunctitis. She was the most polluted at the bonfire despite being on an island with 20 something year olds. She was so funny but didn't know how entertaining she was, singing along to the songs and not knowing a any of the words. She was puking and drinking what looked like water from a water bottle so we were all like she's ok she's being a sensible doctor and drinking water until one of had a swig-pure bloody vodka in a 2L bottle-what a crazy Sheila. So funny!
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