Fiji log 4 -- 29 May 2015

       Not many pictures today.  We motored over the central mountain range yesterday to Pacific Harbor after the divers finished their second dive and had lunch.  About the top of the range, it got dark and started raining.  We listened to the sound of the surf all night and the rain continued through the morning.

  Fran in the rain

  more rain

 crab castles by the stream; and it's still raining

This morning, Fran and I took a taxi to the art village near Navua.  We found some pretty souvenirs.  We are having them shipped home.

water lilies at the art center pond

Last night, I managed to break my vial of insulin.  Part of this morning was spent looking for another.  The local Chemist (Pharmacist) did not have the type I regularly use.  I am trying another and will keep track of the results.

Certainly happy that we came during the dry season because it rained and rained and rained.  It’s been pouring water on us, the land, the cars, the people and the crops for about seventeen hours at 11:00 today.  I suspect that we’ll have droplets until we cross back over the mountains to the dry side of the island.

We’re staying at the Uprising Beach Resort.  Frankly, I don’t care for it.  A couple of the staff are friendly, but the rest look at us as if we were an unwelcome disturbance of their day.  The food is cold and not very flavorful.  I think this resort is mainly for younger folk.  There are quite a few and they partied hard last night.  The resort features disk jockey whose choices are loud and fast for dancing.  OF course, the rain may have soured me on this whole place.

How-some-ever, there was one piece of advice worth remembering.  It was on the wall of instructions to find the "convenience".

     Most of the divers agreed.  We got on our bus back to RakiRaki about 4:30 PM and rode through the rain.

Our evening stop for potty and beer.  Still raining.

     Wananavu Beach Resort called us about an hour before we arrived to get information on what everyone wanted for supper.  We made it back about 8:30.  About half the group called it a day and hit the sack.  The rest of us had supper and did the same.  It had been a long day.  My legs took about fifteen minutes to get back to walking.  For that quarter hour, I tottered around like a hundred year old without his cane..