Fiji Trip Report
Jul. 16th, 2007 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revidAdministrative Note: I have a new LJ email address since Hushmail cancelled my account in my absence: revidLJ at gmail dot com.
It's SOOOOOOO good to be home! I really missed all of you.
We flew into Nadi, Fiji non-stop from LAX, arriving at 5:30 AM local time, and losing a day. (Fiji is 5 hours earlier but one day later than California time.) We (my friend and dive buddy Wendy, Chuck & Angie, who organized the trip, and I) went straight to the very nice Lagoon Resort in Pacific Harbor, Fiji, where we napped and tried to get our body clocks turned around. The following day, we did two shark feeding dives at the aptly named nearby Shark Reef. Saw some bull sharks the size of refrigerators! It was amazing.
The following day we drove to Suva to board the Sere Ni Wai (Fijian for "Cuts Through the Water") aka the Fiji Aggressor III. The van that got us had picked up four of our other friends on the boat from the airport, and the remaining 2 (for a total of 10 people) met us in Suva. We headed out for the 6 hr ride to the first dive sites.
The days on the boat had the same basic pattern: Continental breakfast at 6:30, dive at 7:30, hot breakfast, dive at 10:30, lunch, dive at 1:30, snack, dive at 4:30, dinner, night dive at 7:30, crash, start all over again. I did 49 dives total. The diving was phenomenal with sun blocking-sized swarms of fish, beautiful nudibranchs and other invertabrates, and abundant soft coral. It might be my favorite diving ever.
Our friends went home after the first week, but Wendy and I stayed for a second week. This time there were only 7 people total on the boat. It was very nice. Took the van back to Nadi on Saturday AM, boarded the 747 with 450 of my closest friends at 10PM Saturday, and through the miracle of time zones and date lines, arrived in Los Angeles 10 hours later at 1:20PM Saturday.
Bizarre Random Obsevation: We were in a tiny little supermarket in the tiny little town of Lami, Fiji, and over the speaker playing background music comes that freaking "Clothes Off" song by Gym Class Heros. What the fuck?!
I took a ton of pictures and some video, with which I will be spamming you intermittantly over the next few weeks. Here's a taste of some shark video (I was more afraid of that damn big grouper, named Leroy by the boat crew):
Close-up of a leather coral:
Good Night All!
It's SOOOOOOO good to be home! I really missed all of you.
We flew into Nadi, Fiji non-stop from LAX, arriving at 5:30 AM local time, and losing a day. (Fiji is 5 hours earlier but one day later than California time.) We (my friend and dive buddy Wendy, Chuck & Angie, who organized the trip, and I) went straight to the very nice Lagoon Resort in Pacific Harbor, Fiji, where we napped and tried to get our body clocks turned around. The following day, we did two shark feeding dives at the aptly named nearby Shark Reef. Saw some bull sharks the size of refrigerators! It was amazing.
The following day we drove to Suva to board the Sere Ni Wai (Fijian for "Cuts Through the Water") aka the Fiji Aggressor III. The van that got us had picked up four of our other friends on the boat from the airport, and the remaining 2 (for a total of 10 people) met us in Suva. We headed out for the 6 hr ride to the first dive sites.
The days on the boat had the same basic pattern: Continental breakfast at 6:30, dive at 7:30, hot breakfast, dive at 10:30, lunch, dive at 1:30, snack, dive at 4:30, dinner, night dive at 7:30, crash, start all over again. I did 49 dives total. The diving was phenomenal with sun blocking-sized swarms of fish, beautiful nudibranchs and other invertabrates, and abundant soft coral. It might be my favorite diving ever.
Our friends went home after the first week, but Wendy and I stayed for a second week. This time there were only 7 people total on the boat. It was very nice. Took the van back to Nadi on Saturday AM, boarded the 747 with 450 of my closest friends at 10PM Saturday, and through the miracle of time zones and date lines, arrived in Los Angeles 10 hours later at 1:20PM Saturday.
Bizarre Random Obsevation: We were in a tiny little supermarket in the tiny little town of Lami, Fiji, and over the speaker playing background music comes that freaking "Clothes Off" song by Gym Class Heros. What the fuck?!
I took a ton of pictures and some video, with which I will be spamming you intermittantly over the next few weeks. Here's a taste of some shark video (I was more afraid of that damn big grouper, named Leroy by the boat crew):
Close-up of a leather coral:
Good Night All!
