Castaway! Part 2 (Nadi, Fiji)

I ran out of time yesterday so had to post it without completing my story.

So anyway, we hiked through mud, had to gather logs to roll one boat onto shore, and then the manager of the Octopus Resort coralled a couple boats to take us over to the Yasawa Flyer, which is the only big boat that comes to the Yasawa islands, and the only boat that was still running.

Oh, and the reason I had to go through all of this in the first place!

So after it started raining, and gusting, and generally getting worse and worse we found out the reason was because two cyclones were converging off the coast of Fiji and heading our way. So all boat transfers were cancelled indefinetly, except for one last boat leaving yesterday. And since I have an early morning flight tomorrow, I made the decision to get out while I could, and here I am, back in Nadi one day earlier than planned.

So taking the little boat was pretty horrific, we were getting thrashed in the waves pretty badly. A lot of people were pretty worried about getting on a boat this day. You'll see pictures and video at some point, and be able to appreciate why. To add to that, the staff decided to play the Titanic theme (twice!) at lunch, and have the boats pick us up from a graveyard. Oh, those crazy Fijians!

But only one girl of our group, Jasmine, threw up, and other than the initial boat ride over to the Yasawa Flyer, and the intial 15 minutes of the Flyer getting out of the bay, it wasn't so bad.

Today the plan is to walk over to the local Hindu temple and check out the market with the people I've been travelling with.

So my next post will probably be from Sydney in a couple days!