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Our little bure on arrival by seaplane at Namenalala (Moody's)
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Crab versus leaf!
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Julie on our favourite beach. There weren't any other guests on the island,
so we had it all to ourselves - no footprints on the beach but our own.
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Beach with walking girl.
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Nathan stalking the wily coconut.
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Reading by gaslight under the safety of mosquito netting.
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The southernmost half of the little island was a booby reserve. Here we're
rounding the cape in a kayak. No boobies are in the shot. No, they're a
type of bird.
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Julie's been hitting the Kava bowl again.
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Twilight on a beach. The sky is full of boobies. Or maybe giant fruit bats.
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De plane! De plane! Our seaplane took us away back to Nadi for our next leg.
You can see the reef way out there.
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A reef from the seaplane. At the edge of the reef, sometimes the bottom
drops down from a few feet to a mile or so.
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The scary little plane finally makes it to Viti Levu, largest of the islands
of Fiji.
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Guessing which lever was for floats, and which for wheels. Nadi international
airport.
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In-flight goofing.
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A Hindu temple in Nadi. Some 40 percent of the population are of Indian
descent. Many of the resident Gods politely waited for us to leave before
consuming the food offerings.
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Some situations call for heavy prayer.
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The bures at Turtle offered ludicrous levels of luxury.
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The little turtle on the left lit up at night. Plushness abounded.
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Pleasantly lush, sculpted, tropical garden path leading to one of the bures.
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Our little jungle dwelling.
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A somewhat crooked shot of Paddy's Island. In the rather unfortunate feature
film "The Blue Lagoon", it's where the old sailor (Paddy) drinks himself to
death. Cheers!
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Nathan exercising his right to pose girlishly in a wetsuit.
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The bure had a hot tub too, but the bubbles made Julie think evil thoughts.
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We're holding on to our hats, but our Divemaster, Lance, hasn't yet started
the engines.
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