I'm afraid that the last week has not turn out as well as I'd hoped. As something to read (for both me in the future and any shadow travelling companions I may have out there in blog land), I don't see much point in recording lots of misery. Suffice to say that incessant insect bites, a week of galloping upset stomach and several days of dramtic thunder storms has put a bit of a downer on my last week in Fiji. Another way to put it is that I've been able to ...

I'm now based in the Anchorage Beach Resort in Lautoka, and expect to be here for the next 9 days till I fly on to New Zealand. But I should fill in the journey between Savusavu and here. Savusavu is, as I said previously, a fairly small place. I visited the local Pearl Farm, including a trip in a glass bottomed boat. In my mind, the farm would use bikini clad, lithe Fijian girls diving in to sparkling clear waters with their knives to collect the oysters, ...