Hopped into a taxi to SUNNY Lautoka, then the express bus to
Suva where we arrived in a torrential rain storm…..what is it with our vacation
plans and the rain????? After a quick
run, sprint....splash ... sprint...splash to the store across from the Suva bus depot to buying fruit and cheese, we took a taxi to our home for 4
nights; Colo-i-Suva resort, an eco-lodge not far from the capital Suva. Let’s just say we arrived at reception like two
drowned rat !! When the bus guy was
getting out our backpacks he was standing in 6 or 8 inches of water you get the
picture.
The first thing the resort does it gives us umbrellas! Hummmm what are they trying to tell us ???Then we go to our room and check our bags out to
see how wet they got. Finally the rain
tapered off and you could see the view, our balcony overlooked a lily pond! Lovely and peaceful.
Next morning with the sun out we took off for the rainforest
walk, which started some 300 meters from the lodge. It took us about 2 hours; we walked past
something like 10 waterfalls, beautiful!
After our walk we did our laps in the pool and we had the afternoon off
to sit on the balcony and read. Perfect
planning as the skies opened up for the afternoon, not like the day before, but
made reading the activity of choice. After a lovey meal at the resort we went
back to our balcony to watch our night time entertainment, the bats flying over
the pond.
Off we went to Suva, after coffee and fruit salad on
the balcony watching the birds and water lilies, yup the water lilies need
watching as they do change as the sun comes up…about as fast as paint drying. We went to the movies and saw American Sniper,
then tried for lunch. The place we were
looking for was called Guava, we even had the address from the internet, when
we got there we found that it had been closed for some time! So much for checking things out on the
internet. So we went to Bad Dog Cafe, a
restaurant we had tried to go to with Bruce, but it was always closed. While this time it was open, had our favorite
Malbec and a lovely risotto with duck confit!
We caught the local bus back to the resort for laps in the pool and to
watch our bats.
Next day we did a walk again in the rainforest, but
backwards, so that we ended with the waterfalls to cool off. This time we were at the lower pools and they
had a Tarzan swing, which we partook of. A local family was there, they had left home
at 7am to spend the day at the pools and picnic. The boys offered us the rope and said “you go
first” we are not sure if they were being gentlemanly or they just want to see
if we would swing on the rope, so Karen took the challenge. Yup the water was let’s say refreshing but
you can’t back out when you are swinging from a rope, right!!!. It was a lot of fun. We guess we provide enough entertainment for
the family they even offered us food. Should
we change our names to Jane 1 and Jane 2?????
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| IT IS GOING TO BE COOOOOOLD |
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| Where is Tarzan when you need him ???? |
Back at the lodge we had noodle soup and then went to play
pool. To which I must say, we
stunk!! But it was fun. Dinner was a taste of Fiji, they do it every
night, 5 different dishes each night, a great idea. Val and Brian the owners bought us a bowl of
Papaya soup, which was also lovely!
Back to Vuda Marina. A taxi,
a bus and a taxi. When we arrive they
give us the keys to the cabin, the room we have reserved, open the door to find
someone else’s clothes there! Oops, they
check the booking and it was us who were supposed to be there alright. Anyway we were given the upgrade of the Cottage
for the night for the same price, life is good.
As for the paint job on the boat the contractor didn’t get
as far along as we hoped or they hoped but work has started. The forecast for the week looks good for the
paint job, so we will see how it goes!
We plan to hang around the marina while Interlude is being painted so we have volunteered our painting and sanding skills to our friends on Summer Spirit as we can't do anything on our boat except supervise and we are bored....okay Cheryl is bored.
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