FIJI DAY 9 /10

Saturday was the day a number of our new friends were leaving. John and Jenny and Seth and Sarah from Los Angeles, Paul and Odette from Montreal, Terry and Kristie from Florida, and Andrew and Gill from Sydney all gathered about 10.30 to board the boat back to Viti Levu. The staff gathered to sing a traditional farewell song for them and Lib and I said our goodbyes.

Lib had come down with the very sore neck and swollen glands and had fever as well so after the farewell we went to the little store (which opened for half an hour each day if anyone turned up) to buy some panadol, then we went back to the bure to read and rest. Lib stayed resting till dinner, I took an afternoon walk to the summit before happy hour.

I'd stopped making diary notes diary notes by this point so my comments for the rest of the trip will be from memory totally and brief, but there's yet to come some interesting stuff I'd like to record and some more photos I'd like to put up so I'll persist over the next few days to finish my commentary of our Fiji trip.

Sunday was a rest day if I remember, with Lib still a bit crook. I took a solo walk in the afternoon, it was from memory the worst day weather wise, with the wind at its worst and some drizzly rain.

New people hadarrived on the Saturday return boat, Paul and ? from Christchurch NZ, Nobby and Ray and wives from Murray Bridge in SthAust and Jim and Patricia from the Gold Coast.

I just checked and we took no photos on days 9 and 10, probably because Lib was crook and we didn't do much anyway. I made a serious dent in Michener's 'Carribbean'.